RIGID
Dictionary entry overview: What does rigid mean?
• RIGID (adjective)
The adjective RIGID has 5 senses:
1. incapable of or resistant to bending
2. incapable of compromise or flexibility
3. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
4. fixed and unmoving
5. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
Familiarity information: RIGID used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• RIGID (adjective)
Meaning:
Incapable of or resistant to bending
Synonyms:
rigid; stiff
Context examples:
a rigid strip of metal / a table made of rigid plastic / a palace guardsman stiff as a poker / stiff hair / a stiff neck
Similar:
inflexible (resistant to being bent)
Meaning:
Incapable of compromise or flexibility
Synonyms:
rigid; strict
Similar:
intolerant (unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion)
Meaning:
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
Synonyms:
unbending; rigid; inflexible
Context examples:
a rigid disciplinarian / an inflexible law / an unbending will to dominate
Similar:
unadaptable (not adaptable)
Meaning:
Fixed and unmoving
Synonyms:
fixed; set; rigid
Context examples:
with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare / his bearded face already has a set hollow look / a face rigid with pain
Similar:
nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)
Meaning:
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
Similar:
semirigid (having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure)
Domain category:
aeronautics; astronautics (the theory and practice of navigation through air or space)
Antonym:
nonrigid (designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure)
