Rigid

What do we mean by rigid?

Not flexible or pliant; stiff: synonym: stiff. adjective

Not moving or flexing. adjective

Not changing or adjusting to different conditions or problems. adjective

Scrupulously or severely maintained or performed; rigorous or harsh. adjective

Being an airship with a external frame made of rigid parts. adjective

Stiff; not pliant or easily bent; not plastic or easily molded; resisting any change of form when acted upon by force; hard.

Not easily driven back or thrust out of place; unyielding; firm.

Not easily wrought upon or affected; inflexible; hence, harsh; severe; rigorous; rigorously framed or executed: as, a rigid sentence; rigid criticism.

Strict in opinion, conduct, discipline, or observance; uncompromising; scrupulously exact or exacting: as, a rigid disciplinarian; a rigid Calvinist.

Stiff in outline or aspect; harsh; hard; rugged; without smoothness, softness, or delicacy of appearance.

Sharp; severe; bitter; cruel.

In dynamics: Absolutely incapable of being strained.

Resisting stresses.

Synonyms and Severe, Rigorous, etc. (see austere), inflexible, unbending, unyielding.

Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. adjective

Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict adjective

Stiff, rather than flexible. adjective

Fixed, rather than moving. adjective

Rigorous and unbending. adjective

Uncompromising. adjective

A bicycle with no suspension system.

Words that are spelled similarly to rigid:
rigid, frigid, brigid, rigil, rigi, digid.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rigid:
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Words that rhyme with rigid:
frigid, bridge id.

Adjectives that are often used to describe rigid:
more, non, semi, plastic, akinetic, downward, universe.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rigid:
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