Synonyms for RIGID
ˈrɪdʒ ɪdrigid

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1. rigidadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, unbending

   Antonyms:
   flexible, compromising, moving

2. rigidadjective

   Stiff, rather than flexible.

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, unbending

   Antonyms:
   moving, flexible, compromising

3. rigidadjective

   Fixed, rather than moving.

   Synonyms:
   unbending, inflexible

   Antonyms:
   compromising, flexible, moving

4. rigidadjective

   Rigorous and unbending.

   Synonyms:
   unbending, inflexible

   Antonyms:
   flexible, compromising, moving

5. rigidadjective

   Uncompromising.

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, unbending

   Antonyms:
   flexible, moving, compromising

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1. rigid

   That is severe which is devoid of all softness, mildness, tenderness, indulgence or levity, or (in literature and art) devoid of unnecessary ornament, amplification, or embellishment of any kind; as, a severe style; as said of anything painful, severe signifies such as heavily taxes endurance or resisting power; as, a severe pain, fever, or winter. Rigid signifies primarily stiff, resisting any effort to change its shape; a corpse is said to be rigid in death; hence, in metaphorical sense, a rigid person or character is one that resists all efforts to change the will or course of conduct; a rigid rule or statement is one that admits of no deviation. Rigorous is nearly akin to rigid, but is a stronger word, having reference to action or active qualities, as rigid does to state or character; a rigid rule may be rigorously enforced. Strict (Latin stringo, bind) signifies bound or stretched tight, tense, strenuously exact. Stern unites harshness and authority with strictness or severity; stern, as said even of inanimate objects, suggests something authoritative or forbidding. Austere signifies severely simple or temperate, strict in self-restraint or discipline, and similarly unrelenting toward others. We speak of austere morality, rigid rules, rigorous discipline, stern commands, severe punishment, harsh speech or a harsh voice, hard requirements, strict injunctions, and strict obedience. Strict discipline holds one exactly and unflinchingly to the rule; rigorous discipline punishes severely any infraction of it. The austere character is seldom lovely, but it is always strong and may be grand, commanding, and estimable.

   Synonyms:
   austere, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, morose, relentless, rigorous, severe, stern, stiff, strict, uncompromising, unmitigated, unrelenting, unyielding

   Antonyms:
   affable, bland, easy, genial, gentle, indulgent, lenient, mild, pliable, soft, sweet, tender, tractable, yielding

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1. rigid

   Synonyms:
   stiff, unpliant, unflexible, stubborn, tough, stark, staunch, unswerving, exact, unbending, undeviating, austere

   Antonyms:
   pliant, docile, flexible, variable, mild, lenient, inexact, yielding, inconstant, inconsistent

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1. rigid, stiffadjective

   incapable of or resistant to bending

   "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"

   Synonyms:
   stiff, slopped, pissed, blind drunk, unfaltering, fixed, besotted, steadfast, buckram, blotto, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, firm, inflexible, soused, sozzled, starchy, squiffy, unbendable, plastered, soaked, unshakable, unwavering, rigid, unbending, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, set, loaded, strict, wet, steady

   Antonyms:
   adaptable, nonrigid, moving, flexile, flexible, tolerant

2. rigid, strictadjective

   incapable of compromise or flexibility

   Synonyms:
   strict, set, rigorous, stiff, hard-and-fast, unbending, exacting, stern, inflexible, fixed, nonindulgent, rigid

   Antonyms:
   nonrigid, adaptable, tolerant, flexible, moving, flexile

3. inflexible, rigid, unbendingadjective

   incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

   "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"

   Synonyms:
   stiff, strict, unbending, set, sturdy, uncompromising, inflexible, fixed, rigid

   Antonyms:
   tolerant, flexile, adaptable, flexible, nonrigid, moving

4. rigidadjective

   designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

   Synonyms:
   fixed, unbending, inflexible, stiff, set, strict

   Antonyms:
   nonrigid, moving, flexible, tolerant, flexile, adaptable

5. fixed, set, rigidadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   strict, placed, determined, set, fit(p), situated, stiff, frozen, set(p), inflexible, primed(p), fixed, unbending, dictated, located, laid, hardened, rigid

   Antonyms:
   tolerant, adaptable, flexible, flexile, moving, nonrigid

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1. rigidadjective

   Synonyms:
   stiff, inflexible, unpliant, unbending, unyielding

2. rigidadjective

   Synonyms:
   sharp, severe, strict, stern, rigorous, harsh, austere

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1. rigidadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, stiff, unyielding, unpliant, rigorous, severe, austere, strict

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1. List of paraphrases for "rigid":

   inflexible, strict, stiff, stringent, ossified, stiffness, rigorous, hard-wall, tight, hard, tough, unwieldy, unyielding, fossilized

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1. Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian":

   I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

2. Raymond Soneira:

   One challenging issue has always been switching from a rigid and hard cover glass protecting the current smartphones to a flexible and durable plastic cover protecting the flexible display, it needs to have superior optical properties and low reflectance like glass, and then also survive 50,000 or more opening and closing cycles.

3. Wilfried Porth:

   We do not want to cut back worker protection, but we need to leave people the freedom to decide what hours they work, extremely strenuous physical labor, which requires rigid rules - we don't have that to the same extent as we used to.

4. Samuel Dagogo-Jack:

   But just like this paper is unable to present very specific evidence, we also can not give very rigid guidelines, the studies are just not there.

5. Paul Byrne:

   Think of like a Milky Way bar or a Mars bar, its where the chocolate and caramel touch, that depth, you can treat that as the thickness of the brittle, rigid layer.