Synonym: adamant, firm, hard, stiff, strict, stubborn, taut, tense, unbending, unyielding. Antonym: pliable, yielding. Similar words: frigid, origin, originate, originally, aboriginal, originality, turgid, dig in. Meaning: ['rɪdʒɪd] adj. 1. incapable of or resistant to bending 2. incapable of compromise or flexibility 3. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances 4. fixed and unmoving 5. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure.
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61. To these have now been added a vast range of applications in fibres, films, housewares, rigid packaging and building.
62. His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin.
63. Nicholson brought instant stability to the production and introduced some of the rigid controls he had learned from the Corman modusoperandi.
64. Spoon the ice-cream into a rigid plastic container and freeze.
65. About a dozen large rigid plates make up the Earth's crust.
66. Cool. 3 Fold the whipped cream into the custard and pour into a rigid polythene container.
67. Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap, knitting forgotten, keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her.
68. Conforming to the more rigid traditions such as locking up women is a privilege only the upwardly mobile can afford.
69. Such disparities predated the imposition of a rigid social hierarchy, but became more marked during the course of the Tokugawa period.
70. See if your teeth are clenched or if your spine is rigid.
71. The skills acquired from rigid planning are different in degree but not in kind from the skills required for flexible planning.
72. Left: Typical of the rigid frame using glass fibre tubing on the earlier steerable deltas is seen on this example.
73. It opens with an outline map and the superimposition of the rather rigid zones used by the emergency planners.
74. The leering triumph on her captor's brutish features changed to a rigid mask of surprise.
75. The tetanus bacteria grow at the site of the injury and release a toxin which produces rigid muscles and muscle contractions.
76. Dear Help Wanted: We punch a time clock and our employer has a rigid lateness policy.
77. In the islands almost all white men were part of a rigid structure that turned them into guards and gaolers.
78. Boundaries are most rigid, their outline obvious and often oppressive.
79. In doing so, I offer no rigid model to be used whatever the context.
80. But Schro der's leftwing government adopted a less rigid stance on foreign currency.
81. I had rigid notions about social roles, about the structure of society, about gender,[sentencedict.com/rigid.html] about politics.
82. It also calls for a rigid speed limit to be imposed on motorists and for short-term parking bays to be made available.
83. Thus it could not compete with Lancashire, and rigid protection of the home market became the creed of all Catalan industrialists.
84. Begrimed by obscure use, otiose warehouses shadowed the rigid, corky bobbing of gulls.
85. Propping up the world's most enduring dictator is a slavish personality cult, and rigid control of the nation.
86. But as the century proceeded, these rigid differences were to some extent eroded.
87. Living reptiles have a skull like a rigid box, with a simple arrangement of jaw muscles.
88. The rigid class distinctions which characterised British society are beginning to break down.
89. The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear.
90. The production system is more capital intensive and rigid, making modifications expensive.
More similar words: frigid, origin, originate, originally, aboriginal, originality, turgid, dig in, digital, eligible, religion, litigious, religious, vestigial, right, prestigious, trigger, wriggle, all right, brigade, digital clock, right away, intrigue, brighten, right wing, sprightly, forthright, intrigued, frightful, irrigation.