rigid

CEFRB2

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Unable to bend, change, or adapt easily.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Fixed, rather than moving.

Examples

  • Rigid wheels give sufficient stability to a low-speed vehicle steered by outside forces.

  • The frame of the machine should be rigid.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.

  2. Stiff, rather than flexible.

  3. Rigorous and unbending.

More examples

In context

  • The school has rigid rules regarding the student uniform.

  • The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.

  • A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.

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Origin

adjective

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.