inflexible
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4.9
- adjective
- /ɪnˈflɛksəbl/
:
rígido
- Due to the inflexible rules of the organization, many employees felt stifled in their creativity.
- rigid and inflexible
- rather inflexible
Examples
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He stretched in his chair, trying to bend his spine, which had become as inflexible as a beam of wood.
Fiction book (1991) -
The inflexible rule is that the source must be preserved.
Academic text (2001) -
A common assumption in vehicle design is that the entire fuel tank must be a permanent and inflexible part of the vehicle.
Academic text (2000) -
An inflexible, static test design is not conducive to knowledge generation.
Academic text (2017) -
Where public transit is required, the flexibility of motor coaches (i.e., buses) is far superior to expensive-to-operate and maintain, inflexible trolley cars.
Blog text (11) -
The engineer noted that the materials chosen for the project were inflexible, limiting their design options.
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The inflexible nature of the plastic made it unsuitable for projects that required bending and shaping.
Synonyms
127
1.7
Not easy to bend or move
35
4.0
Does not bend because it is stiff
2
6.7
Hard and not easily bent or broken by force
Too hard to shape or bend
Not able to be shaped by hand or molded
Very hard and does not bend or change under pressure
Antonyms
How Bendable
Surface Forms
Morphology
inflexible = flexible (transparent) = in + flex + ible
This sense is a straightforward negation of the literal sense of 'flexible' meaning able to bend.
Etymology
Inflexible comes from the parts in- 'not' and flex 'bend', which is the same root in flexible. So an inflexible object is one that cannot be bent or changed in shape.