rigider

Adjective

rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative rigidest or most rigid)

1. Stiff, rather than flexible.

   Synonyms:

   inflexible, firm, frozen, hard, hardened, immalleable, ossified, petrified, solid, stark

   Antonyms:

   flexible, bain, bendable, bendsome, bendy, flexile, limber, lithe

2. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
3. 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

   Synonyms:

   static, stuck, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless

   Antonyms:

   moving, ambulatory, animate, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive, movable, vagile

4. Rigorous and unbending.
5. 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

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