inflexibly
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6.0
- adverb
- /ɪnˈflɛksəbli/
:
inflexiblemente
- The policy was inflexibly applied, leaving no room for exceptions or individual circumstances.
Examples
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Managers may fear that having once stated a target level, they will be held inflexibly accountable to it, even as circumstances change.
Academic text (2006) -
As each female turtle selects a spot on the beach that she finds suitable, she begins a sequence of motions that is inflexibly stereotyped.
Academic text (1995) -
Still, she looked at him inflexibly.
Fiction book (1991) -
Too inflexibly.
Fiction book (2000) -
Whether progressives are unrealistic or simply inflexibly and politically "sectarian," one thing appears to be indisputable:
Blog text (2) -
UK guidelines on the treatment of secondary breast cancer were introduced in 2009, but concerns about the rigidity of NICE treatment guidelines and their potential for a negative effect on individuals if inflexibly applied have led to the development of supplementary guidance.
Academic text (2014) -
We did experiments in the fall and found that in most matters of the gut, robins proved to be inflexibly designed, more like insectivores than frugivores.
Academic text (1993) -
The United States had unilaterally and inflexibly banned shrimp imports from countries that did not have in place a specific turtle protection regime of its own liking for all production.
Academic text (2005) -
He must eat for the day; the fateful morning of culmination was approaching, and he must be strong, his hands and nerves inflexibly steady, his body vital and pure.
Fiction book (2002) -
4chan and the hacker community could also learn something, since they've rallied around him as a symbol for an orthodox hacker ideology that he actually seems to disagree with, and he has ejected people from his organization for inflexibly adhering to it.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
22
6.4
In a firm way that shows you refuse to change your mind
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4.3
In a strict way that does not allow change
In a way that does not bend or give up under strong pressure
Antonyms
How Inflexible
Surface Forms
Morphology
inflexibly = inflexible (transparent) = in + flex + ible + ly
The adverbial meaning is directly derived from the adjective 'inflexible' by the regular suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
The word inflexibly comes from the parts in- ('not') and flex, which means 'to bend', and is the opposite of flexible. So to act inflexibly is to be 'not bending', which is why it means rigid or unwilling to change.