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US
/ˈɹɪdʒəd, ˈɹɪdʒɪd/
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[ UK /ɹˈɪdʒɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪdʒɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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fixed and unmoving
his bearded face already has a set hollow look
a face rigid with pain
with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare - incapable of compromise or flexibility
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incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
an inflexible law
an unbending will to dominate
a rigid disciplinarian -
incapable of or resistant to bending
a table made of rigid plastic
stiff hair
a rigid strip of metal
a stiff neck
a palace guardsman stiff as a poker - designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
How To Use rigid In A Sentence
- The drop-in module, which adds to the stiffness and torsional rigidity of the whole vehicle, ties the car together from the seats rearward and from b-pillar to b-pillar.
- Taking up so much of the roof area, it has to stay sealed with the glass permanently in place to maintain the car's body rigidity.
- Polar Instruments has added a flex-rigid PCB design option to the Speedstack PCB layer-stackup design system. Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
- The curriculum was too narrow and too rigid.
- Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
- The rigid collar and tandem harness allowed teams to pull with equal strength and greater efficiency.
- But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
- At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions. The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
- The light-gray tailgate is made completely from lightweight but highly robust Lexan, allowing a view of the aluminum structure that makes up the rigidifying frame, for example. Autoblog
- At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random