rigid

Modifying Another Word

• excessively: It reflects rather excessively high and excessively rigid pay costs.
• overly: ICPs should not be applied in an overly rigid way.
• fairly: The actors do a commendable job with what they're given, but the delivery on occasion is fairly rigid.
• too: Focus Groups have proved popular with members who found the Regional Committee system too rigid.
• exceptionally: The engine unit is exceptionally rigid, with vibration and noise reduced as much as possible.
• extremely: It provides an extremely rigid 700 x 600 mm platform.

Preposition: with

fear: Even after the Fury had killed Jaspers and badly weakened, was fighting Captain Britain, she merely watched, rigid with fear.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

keep: It can be used to keep bones rigid during a time of healing, help with movement, correct a deformity or relieve pain.

Modifies a noun

• adherence: In some sense too rigid adherence to the " own doctor " principal may not be good.
• inflatable: Also available for charter is an additional rigid inflatable, so you can take pictures of the barge under sail.
• hierarchy: Most seem to be acquiring wider responsibilities in an evolutionary way, rather than by following a rigid hierarchy.
• refinement: I only use rigid body refinement and there is no TLS refinement in Refmac.
• demarcation: There were rigid demarcations as to what a nurse could or could not do.
• substrate: Topics covered will include printing, coating and patterning of metals, and conductive inks on flexible and rigid substrates.

Used with adjective complement

• bore: In the audience, Philip Seymour Hoffman is already bored rigid.
• sit: My fear permeated through everyone in the room, they sat rigid in anticipation.
• become: The culture in schools must become less rigid, he said.
• stand: Yet they are all doing it and I would actually look sillier if I stood there rigid as a statue.
• remain: His eyes moved slowly, his body remaining rigid as tho he were petrified.
• stay: If you contract your muscles, your body may stay rigid in places and not join the wave.