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inflexible - resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade"; |
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flexible,
flexile bending and snapping back readily without breaking
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inelastic not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure"
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muscle-bound having stiff muscles as the result of excessive exercise; "he arrived accompanied by two muscle-bound body guards"
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rigid,
stiff incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"
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semirigid not fully rigid
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inflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose" |
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flexible bending and snapping back readily without breaking
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adamant,
adamantine,
inexorable,
intransigent impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
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die-hard,
rock-ribbed abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps; "the rock-ribbed coast of Maine"
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fossilised,
fossilized,
ossified set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
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hard-core extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography"
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brassbound,
ironclad having trim or fittings of brass; "a brassbound campaign chest"; "the heavy brassbound door"
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inflexible - incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" |
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rigid,
unbending |
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unadaptable not adaptable
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