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Definition of Rigid
1. Adjective. Incapable of or resistant to bending. "A stiff neck"
Similar to: Inflexible
Derivative terms: Rigidity, Rigidness, Stiffness, Stiffness
2. Adjective. Incapable of compromise or flexibility.
3. Adjective. Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances. "An unbending will to dominate"
Similar to: Unadaptable
Derivative terms: Inflexibility, Rigidness
4. Adjective. Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure.
5. Adjective. Fixed and unmoving. "A face rigid with pain"
Similar to: Nonmoving, Unmoving
Derivative terms: Fixedness, Fixity, Rigidness
Definition of Rigid
1. a. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Definition of Rigid
1. Adjective. Stiff, rather than flexible. ¹
2. Adjective. Fixed, rather than moving. ¹
3. Adjective. Rigorous and unbending. ¹
4. Adjective. Uncompromising. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rigid
1. not flexible [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigid
Literary usage of Rigid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1917)
"DESIGN OF rigid FRAMES IN STEEL AND REINFORCED CONCRETE. ... In cases like this,
the adoption of a rigid frame permits a considerable reduction in sectional ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The only difference between the two conformers 2-1 and 2-3 appears to be the
distance between the substituent and the rigid cyclic D-ribofuranose ring. ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on Analytic Mechanics: With Numerous Examples by Edward Albert Bowser (1888)
"COMPOSITION AND RESOLUTION OF FORCES ACTING ON A rigid BODY. 43. A rigid Body.—In
the last chapter we considered the action of forces which have a common ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"1 it is required to find the velocity of any point P of a rigid body moving in
a By differentiating equations (1) and ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The knee, shoulder, elbow or hip is generally affected, but the vertebras may
be, the entire spinal column becoming rigid. Motion of affected joints often ..."
6. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"Degrees of Freedom of a rigid Body.—When a rigid body is absolutely free to move in
... If one point in a rigid body be fixed, there can be no translation, ..."
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