Describe something as rigid if it's really stiff and not very flexible, like a super strict practice schedule or an unbending, uncomfortable mattress.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Adjective S.
incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
Adjective
designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
Adjective S.
incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
incapable of compromise or flexibility
a.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
a.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as,
a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid
sentence.
Rigid
Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears.2.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and government.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Usage Examples
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
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Other Usage ExamplesGiving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.
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