rigid
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4.0
- adjective
- /ˈrɪdʒɪd/
:
rígido
- I shall keep my spine rigid.
- a rigid body
- a rigid structure
- a rigid plate
It will get very firm and rigid and sturdy.
- It will get very firm and rigid and sturdy.
- The aluminum chassis is rigid, but not stop.
- So it's a mix of a structure that's kind of rigid, but it's also a little bit fluid.
- The chassis is rigid, dimensions are holding car tracks straight.
- Everything that's round the rigid rotor is a fantastic starting point.
Examples
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Sometimes he wakes to find his flesh rigid as a stick, but it soon subsides.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's actually quite rigid and easy to crack.
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It's quite tiny and cute, and yet it seems quite rigid and solid.
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Your body is growing stiff and rigid.
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Many institutions maintained a rigid policy of not allowing their female teachers to marry.
Academic text (1993) -
She's holding herself pretty rigid in the neck area, which is where I expect the problem to be.
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An ordinary pencil made of rigid wood and graphite.
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A thin film of water now coated his rigid, icy face, running down into his clothes.
Fiction book (1992) -
The old furniture was too rigid to fit in the new space without adjustments.
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He found the rigid rules of the game difficult to adapt to during play.
Synonyms
764
1.0
Firm and not easy to bend, break, or pierce
127
1.7
Not easy to bend or move
2
6.7
Hard and not easily bent or broken by force
1
4.9
Not able to bend or change shape
Not able to be shaped by hand or molded
Antonyms
How Rigid
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rigid comes from the Latin word rigidus, from the root rig- meaning 'stiff' or 'straight'. So a rigid object is easy to remember as something that cannot bend or change shape.