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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈrɪʤɪd/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-rigid.ogg


Adjective

  1. stiff rather than flexible
  2. fixed rather than moving
  3. rigorous and unbending
  4. uncompromising


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Translations

  • Czech:
  • Dutch: ,
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|rigide|m|f}}
  • German: ,
  • Hebrew: נוקשה
  • Hungarian:
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|硬い|tr=katai|sc=Jpan}}
  • Norwegian:
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|rígido|m}}, {{t+|pt|rígida|f}}
  • Russian: жёсткий (žjóstkij), негибкий (negíbkij)
  • Slovenian: tog
  • Dutch: ,
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|固定された|tr=kotei sareta|sc=Jpan}}
  • Norwegian:
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rigid \Rig"id\, a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb:
cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
[1913 Webster]

Upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict;
as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid sentence.
[1913 Webster]

The more rigid order of principles in religion and
government. --Hawthorne.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact;
severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet rigid
adj 1: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
guardsman stiff as a poker" [syn: stiff]
2: incapable of compromise or flexibility [syn: strict]
3: incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a
rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending
will to dominate" [syn: inflexible, unbending]
4: 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" [syn: fixed, set]
5: designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained
by a stiff unyielding frame or structure [ant: nonrigid]
Moby Dictionary
abiding , accurate , adamant , adamantine , at a standstill , attentive ,
austere , buckram , careful , cast-iron , changeless , close ,
conscientious , constant , continuing , correct , critical , delicate ,
demanding , detailed , determined , direct , dogged , dour , draconian ,
durable , enduring , even , exact , exacting , exigent , express ,
exquisite , faithful , fine , finical , finicking , finicky , firm ,
firm as Gibraltar , fixed , flinty , frozen , fundamentalist , fussy ,
grim , hard , hard and fast , hard-core , hard-line , harsh , headstrong ,
hidebound , immobile , immotile , immotive , immovable , immutable ,
implacable , impliable , in buckram , inelastic , inerrable , inerrant ,
inexorable , infallible , inflexible , infrangible , intact ,
intransigent , inviolate , iron , ironbound , ironclad , ironhanded ,
irreconcilable , irremovable , lasting , literal , made of iron ,
mathematical , meticulous , micrometrically precise , microscopic ,
minute , mulish , muscle-bound , narrow , nice , obdurate , obstinate ,
orthodox , painstaking , particular , pat , permanent , perpetual ,
persevering , persistent , pigheaded , pinpoint , pokerlike , precise ,
precisianistic , precisionistic , prim , procrustean , punctilious ,
punctual , purist , puristic , puritan , puritanic , quiescent ,
ramrodlike , refined , relentless , religious , religiously exact ,
remaining , renitent , resolute , resolved , rigorist , rigoristic ,
rigorous , rock-ribbed , rockbound , rodlike , scientific ,
scientifically exact , scrupulous , scrutinizing , set , severe ,
single-minded , solid , sound , square , stable , standpat , starch ,
starched , starchy , static , stationary , staunch , staying , steadfast ,
steely , stern , stiff , stiff as buckram , stilted , stout ,
straightlaced , strait-laced , straitlaced , strict , stringent ,
strong , stubborn , sturdy , subtle , sustained , taut , tenacious ,
tense , thorough , tight , torpid , tough , unadaptable , unaffected ,
unalterable , unaltered , unbending , unbreakable , unchangeable ,
unchanged , unchanging , unchecked , uncompliant , uncompromising ,
undestroyed , undeviating , unerring , unfading , unfailing ,
unflexible , ungiving , unmovable , unmoved , unmoving , unqualified ,
unrelaxed , unrelenting , unshifting , unswerving , unvaried ,
unvarying , unwavering , unyielding , virgate


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