rigid

Plural: rigids

Adjective Satellite

• incapable of or resistant to bending
  • "a rigid strip of metal"
  • "a table made of rigid plastic"
• incapable of compromise or flexibility
• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
  • "a rigid disciplinarian"
• fixed and unmoving; ; - Connor Cruise O'Brien
  • "a face rigid with pain"

Adjective

• Stiff and unbending; not flexible or adaptable.
• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

Adj

• Stiff, rather than flexible.
• Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
• Fixed, rather than moving.
• Rigorous and unbending.
• Uncompromising.

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.
• A bicycle with no suspension system.

Examples

• His RIGID strategy meant he often missed opportunities for creative, high-scoring plays.
• The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.

Synonyms

fixed, inflexible, set, stiff, strict, unbending, Zeppelin, adamant, ardent, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, firm, frozen, hard, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immalleable, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, incalcitrant, inert, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, irrefragable, lifeless, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, ossified, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, petrified, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, sessile, solid, stalwart, stark, static, stationary, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, stuck, sullen, taut, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tight, tough, truculent, uncompromising, unlimber, unmovable, unmoveable, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful

Antonyms

nonrigid, compromising, firm, flexible, immobile, inelastic, inflexible, moving, rigid, stiff, transigent, unbendable

Related Words

rigor, rigorous, rigour

Anagrams of rigid