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rigid
Synonyms and Antonyms of rigid
- rigid enforcement of drug laws
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, ironbound, severe, stern, tough
- a rigid man who cannot seem to relax
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
- rigid steel bars that should be able to hold the weight
- corsets, those rigid undergarments for women, must have been murder to wear
- make sure that the clothesline is rigid so that the longer garments don't drag on the ground
Synonym Discussion of rigid
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- rigid rules of conduct
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- the rigorous training of recruits
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- strict enforcement of the law
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- stringent standards of admission
synonyms see in addition stiff
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