adjective
- Incapable of or resistant to bending.
- usage: "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
- Incapable of compromise or flexibility.
- synonyms: strict
- Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances.
- usage: "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
- synonyms: inflexible, unbending
- Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure.
- Fixed and unmoving.
- usage: "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"
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