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Webster 1913 Edition
Rigid
1.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerable
Of
Of
rigid
spears. Milton.
2.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict;
as, a
rigid
father or master; rigid
discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid
sentence.The more
rigid
order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.
Syn. – Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rigid
RIG'ID
,Adj.
1.
Stiff; not pliant; not easily bent. It is applied to bodies or substances that are naturally soft or flexible, but not fluid. We never say, a rigid stone or rigid iron, nor do we say, rigid ice; but we say, an animal body or limb, when cold, is rigid. Rigid is then opposed to flexible, but expresses less than inflexible.2.
Strict in opinion, practice or discipline; severe in temper; opposed to lax or indulgent; as a rigid father or master; a rigid officer.3.
Strict; exact; as a rigid law or rule; rigid discipline; rigid criticism.4.
Severely just; as a rigid sentence or judgment.5.
Exactly according to the sentence or law; as rigid execution.Definition 2024
rigid
rigid
See also: rígid
English
Adjective
rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative rigidest or most rigid)
- Stiff, rather than flexible.
- Fixed, rather than moving.
- 2011,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King,Penguin Books, page 5:
- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
- 2011,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King,Penguin Books, page 5:
- Rigorous and unbending.
- Uncompromising.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
stiff
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fixed
rigorous, unbending
uncompromising
Noun
rigid (plural rigids)
- A bicycle with no suspension system.
References
- rigid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- rigid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Old Irish
Verb
rigid
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, reduplicated s future, s subjunctive
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References
- “rigid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.