rigid
UK/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
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New Zealand/ˈɹəd͡ʒ.əd/
rigid adjective: stiff, rather than flexible.
Adjective
rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative rigidest or most rigid)
- Stiff, rather than flexible.
- Synonyms:
- inflexible, firm, frozen, hard, hardened, immalleable, ossified, petrified, solid, stark
- Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
- Fixed, rather than moving.
- 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.
- Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.
- Synonyms:
- staunch, unyielding, adamant, ardent, grim, untiring, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain
- Antonyms:
- compromising, transigent
Noun
rigid (plural rigids)
- An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
- The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
- A bicycle with no suspension system.
rigid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rigid in Hindi
- rigid
- कठोर kaṭhor, कड़ा kaṛā
rigid in Tamil
- வளையாத, திண்மை
rigid in Urdu
- rigid
- کٹھور kaṭhōr, کڑا kaṛā
rigid in Bengali
- অনমনীয়
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- rigid in Malayalam
- ദൃഢം dr̥ḍhaṁ
- rigid in Kannada
- ಬಾಗದ, ಬಳುಕದ, ಗಡುಸಾದ, ಸೆಡೆತಿರುವ
- rigid in Odia
- ଲାଠି lāṭhi
- rigid in Pashto
- کلک klak
- rigid in Tagalog
- tigambay
- rigid in Vietnamese
- cứng ngắc, cứng nhắc, cứng đầu, cứng cổ
Examples of rigid in a sentence
- She felt oppressed by the rigid atmosphere of the office.
- Nonrigids are cheap and easy to build, store, and transport, but their lack of structural reinforcement limits them to smaller sizes and lower speeds than rigids or semirigids.
- In essence, a furcula is a long, rigid stick, held underneath the body at high tension.
Synonyms of rigid
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Antonyms
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Forms of rigid
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | rigider |
| comparative | more rigid |
| superlative | rigidest |
| superlative | most rigid |
| Noun | |
| plural | rigids |
Origin of rigid
From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”).
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Questions about rigid
- What does rigid mean?
- Rigid means stiff, rather than flexible.
- What is rigid in Hindi?
- Rigid in Hindi is कठोर (kaṭhor), कड़ा (kaṛā). See Rigid meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rigid?
- Rigid can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce rigid?
- Rigid is pronounced /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rigid (page history and authors); कठोर (Hindi) (page history and authors); rigid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کٹھور (Urdu) (page history and authors); rigid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rigid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଲାଠି (Odia) (page history and authors); کلک (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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