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adj
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: inflexible, firm, frozen, hard, hardened, immalleable, ossified, petrified, rigid, solid, stark, stubborn, stiff, taut, tight, unbending, unlimber, unyielding
Antonyms: flexible, bain, bendable, bendsome, bendy, flexile, limber, lithe
adj
Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Fixed, rather than moving.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: static, stuck, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, rigid, stationary, unmoveable
Antonyms: moving, ambulatory, animate, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive, movable, vagile
adj
Rigorous and unbending.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Uncompromising.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: staunch, unyielding, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, vehement, wilful, willful
Antonyms: compromising, transigent
noun
An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonrigid
adjective satellite
incapable of or resistant to bending
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stiff
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adjective satellite
incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inflexible, unbending
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adjective satellite
fixed and unmoving- Connor Cruise O'Brien
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fixed, set
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adjective satellite
incapable of compromise or flexibility
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: strict
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der. Proto-Italic *rigēō Latin rigeō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rigidusder. Middle English rigide English rigid From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge + -ed.
Across languages
121 source translations are retained for this English entry.
