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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rigid \Rig"id\, a. [L. rigidus fr rigere to be stiff or numb:
cf F. rigide. Cf {Rigor}. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. --Milton.
2. Hence not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict;
as a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid sentence.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and
government. --Hawthorne.
Syn: Stiff; unpliant inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact;
severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rigid
adj 1: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
guardsman stiff as a poker" [syn: {stiff}]
2: incapable of compromise or flexibility [syn: {strict}]
3: incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a
rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending
will to dominate" [syn: {inflexible}, {unbending}]
4: (aeronautics) designating an airship or dirigible having a
form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
[ant: {nonrigid}]
5: fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare";
"his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor
Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" [syn: {fixed}, {set}]
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