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rigid
/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
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What does rigid mean?
adjective
- Stiff, rather than flexible.
- Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
- Fixed, rather than moving.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Rigorous and unbending.
- Uncompromising.
noun
- 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.
- A bicycle with no suspension system.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
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Marguerite sat, straight upright, rigid and inert, trying to think, trying to face the situation, to realise what had best be done.
He knows that the explanations he can afford will be sound and masculine, and will stand the test of a rigid examination.
More book examples (3)
Always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw were locked and the face frozen up in pain.
Subsequently, however, an attempt at rigid construction was made in France with the "Spiess" airship, mainly as a concession to public clamour.
Screw the nuts down hard so as to bring the two beams tightly together, and you will have a rigid 40-foot beam.