English Explanatory Dictionary

rigid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Stiff, rather than flexible.
  2. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
  3. Fixed, rather than moving.
  4. Rigorous and unbending.
  5. Uncompromising.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. A bicycle with no suspension system.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/ en-us-rigid.ogg /ˈɹəd͡ʒ.əd/

Word forms

rigid rigider more rigid rigidest most rigid rigids

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der. Proto-Italic *rigēō Latin rigeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rigidusder. Middle English rigide English 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”), from ridge + -ed.

Synonyms

inflexible firm frozen hard hardened immalleable ossified petrified rigid solid stark stubborn stiff taut tight unbending unlimber unyielding static stuck unmovable fixed immobile immotile immovable inanimate inert lifeless sessile stationary unmoveable staunch adamant ardent grim bent on bloody-minded bullheaded certain chronic confirmed determined diehard dogged hard-hearted hard-nosed hardheaded headstrong incalcitrant irrefragable insistent intractable intransigent intrepid inveterate mulish obdurate obstinate obstreperous peevish

Antonyms

flexible bain bendable bendsome bendy flexile limber lithe moving ambulatory animate kinetic mobile motile motive movable vagile compromising transigent

Related words

rigor rigorous rigour

Derived words

multirigid nonrigid overrigid rigid body rigid body dynamics rigidification rigidify rigidise rigidity rigidize rigid-leaf poison rigidly rigidness rigidulous semirigid subrigid superrigid unrigid

Translations

Bulgarian: строг Bulgarian: непреклонен Dutch: stijf Dutch: onbuigzaam Dutch: rigide Dutch: star Finnish: jäykkä French: rigide Georgian: მკაცრი Georgian: სასტიკი German: steif Hebrew: קשיח Japanese: 堅い Northern Kurdish: req Latvian: stingrs Malayalam: ദൃഢം Māori: whakaioio Norman: rigide Polish: nieugięty Polish: nieustępliwy Portuguese: rígido Russian: суро́вый Russian: жёсткий Scottish Gaelic: rag Lower Sorbian: kšuty Swedish: stel Tagalog: tigambay Turkish: bükülmez
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