Adjective

• S: (adj) rigid, stiff (incapable of or resistant to bending) "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"
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• S: (adj) inflexible (resistant to being bent) "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade"
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• W: (n) rigidness [Related to: rigid] (the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending)
• W: (n) rigidity [Related to: rigid] (the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending)
• W: (n) stiffness [Related to: stiff] (the property of moving with pain or difficulty) "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
• W: (n) stiffness [Related to: stiff] (the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend)
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• W: (adj) flexible [Indirect via inflexible] (able to flex; able to bend easily) "slim flexible birches"
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• S: (adj) rigid, strict (incapable of compromise or flexibility)
• S: (adj) inflexible, rigid, unbending (incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances) "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
• S: (adj) rigid (designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure)
• S: (adj) fixed, set, rigid (fixed and unmoving) "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain"