RIGID

• (adj.) designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : stiff

• (adj.) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

  "a rigid disciplinarian", "an inflexible law", "an unbending will to dominate"

  synonyms : inflexible , unbending

• (adj.) fixed and unmoving

  "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare", "his bearded face already has a set hollow look", "a face rigid with pain"

  synonyms : fixed , set

• (adj.) incapable of compromise or flexibility

  synonyms : strict

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