rigid

The definition of rigid is a person or thing that is stiff, doesn't bend or doesn't move.

(adjective)

See rigid in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

not bending or flexible; stiff and hard: a rigid metal girder
not moving; set
severe; strict; exacting: a rigid taskmaster
1. not deviating; rigorous: rigid regulations
2. precise; exact: rigid specifications
Aeron. having a rigid framework that encloses containers for the gas: said of an airship

Origin: L rigidus < rigere, to be stiff, numb < IE base *(s)rig-, cold > frigid

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See rigid in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Not flexible or pliant; stiff.
Not moving; fixed.
Marked by a lack of flexibility; rigorous and exacting: “We have watered down a rigid training . . . until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses” (Agnes Meyer).
Scrupulously maintained or performed: rigid discipline. See Synonyms at stiff.

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Origin: Middle English rigide

Origin: , from Latin rigidus

Origin: , from rigēre, to be stiff; see reig- in Indo-European roots

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