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inflexible
Synonyms and Antonyms of inflexible
- the inflexible law of gravity
- Shoes made of inflexible plastic hurt my feet.
- The inflexible entry rules for the contest ban anyone who works for the company as well as any of their relatives.
close, conscientious, exact, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous, undeviating
adamant, adamantine, determined, dogged, firm, relentless, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, unflinching
immovable, implacable, unappeasable, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
austere, demanding, flinty, grim, hard, hardened, hard-hearted, harsh, severe, stern, tough
- Her inflexible father was unmoved by tears and pleading, and he grounded her anyway.
adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching
firm, hard-line, iron, severe, stern, strict
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
deaf to reason
Synonym Discussion of inflexible
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- inflexible in their demands
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- obdurate in his refusal to grant clemency
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- adamant that the work should continue
synonyms see in addition stiff
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