rigid

See also: rígid

English

Etymology

From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“I am stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪd

Adjective

rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative rigidest or most rigid)

1. Stiff, rather than flexible.

   Synonyms: inflexible; see also Thesaurus:stiff

   Antonyms: flexible; see also Thesaurus:flexible

2. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
3. Fixed, rather than moving.

   Synonyms: static, stuck, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile

   Antonyms: moving; see also Thesaurus:movable

   • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Penguin Books, page 5:

     A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.

4. Rigorous and unbending.
5. Uncompromising.

   Synonyms: staunch, unyielding; see also Thesaurus:obstinate

   Antonyms: compromising, transigent

Derived terms

• multirigid
• nonrigid
• overrigid
• rigid body
• rigid body dynamics
• rigidify
• rigidity
• rigidize
• rigid-leaf poison
• rigidly
• rigidness
• rigidulous
• semirigid
• subrigid
• superrigid
• unrigid

Related terms

• rigor
• rigorous
• rigour

Translations

stiff

Asturian: ríxidu (ast) Bulgarian: твърд (bg) (tvǎrd), неогъващ се (neogǎvašt se) Catalan: rígid (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 硬性 (zh) (yìngxìng), 僵硬 (zh) (jiāngyìng), 硬 (zh) (yìng) Czech: tuhý (cs), rigidní (cs) Dutch: stijf (nl), stroef (nl), rigide (nl), star (nl) Esperanto: rigida Finnish: jäykkä (fi), kankea (fi) French: rigide (fr) Galician: rixo m, ríxido (gl) Georgian: მაგარი (magari), მტკიცე (mṭḳice), უდრეკი (udreḳi) German: steif (de), starr (de) Greek: Ancient: ἄκαμπτος (ákamptos) Hebrew: נוקשה Hungarian: merev (hu) Italian: rigido (it) Japanese: 硬い (ja) (かたい, katai) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: req (ku) Latin: rigidus, rigens Latvian: stings, stingrs, stīvs Malayalam: ദൃഢം (ml) (dr̥ḍhaṁ) Maori: torotika Norman: rigide (Jersey) Norwegian: (please verify) rigid, (please verify) stiv (no) Occitan: rigid (oc) Plautdietsch: stiew Polish: sztywny (pl) Portuguese: rígido (pt) Romanian: rigid (ro), bățos (ro), țeapăn (ro) Russian: жёсткий (ru) (žóstkij), неги́бкий (ru) (negíbkij) Scottish Gaelic: rag Slovene: tog Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kšuty Swedish: stel (sv) Turkish: katı (tr), sert (tr) Vietnamese: cứng ngắc (vi), cứng nhắc (vi)

fixed

Bulgarian: неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen) Dutch: stevig (nl), stabiel (nl) Finnish: kiinteä (fi) Georgian: მტკიცე (mṭḳice), უდრეკი (udreḳi) Japanese: 固定された (kotei sareta) Latvian: stings, stīvs Malayalam: ദൃഢം (ml) (dr̥ḍhaṁ) Norwegian: rigid Portuguese: rígido (pt) Russian: жёсткий (ru) (žóstkij), негну́щийся (ru) (negnúščijsja) Swedish: fast (sv) Turkish: sabit (tr)

rigorous, unbending

Bulgarian: строг (bg) (strog), непреклонен (bg) (nepreklonen) Dutch: stijf (nl), onbuigzaam (nl), rigide (nl), star (nl) Finnish: jäykkä (fi) French: rigide (fr) Georgian: მკაცრი (mḳacri), სასტიკი (ka) (sasṭiḳi) German: steif (de) Hebrew: קשיח (he) Japanese: 堅い (ja) (かたい, katai) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: req (ku) Latvian: stingrs Malayalam: ദൃഢം (ml) (dr̥ḍhaṁ) Maori: whakaioio Norman: rigide (Jersey) Norwegian: (please verify) stiv (no) Polish: nieugięty (pl), nieugięty (pl) Polish: nieustępliwy (pl) Portuguese: rígido (pt) Russian: суро́вый (ru) (suróvyj), жёсткий (ru) (žóstkij) Scottish Gaelic: rag Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kšuty Swedish: stel (sv) Tagalog: tigambay Turkish: (engineering) bükülmez (tr)

uncompromising

Bulgarian: безкомпромисен (bg) (bezkompromisen) Dutch: onbuigzaam (nl), star (nl) Finnish: peräänantamaton (fi) French: rigide (fr) Georgian: მკაცრი (mḳacri), უდრეკი (udreḳi), შეუდრეკელი (šeudreḳeli) German: rigide (de) Japanese: 固い (ja) (かたい, katai) Latvian: stingrs Norman: rigide (Jersey) Norwegian: (please verify) rigid Portuguese: rígido (pt) Russian: жёсткий (ru) (žóstkij), непрекло́нный (ru) (nepreklónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: rag Turkish: kesin (tr), sert (tr) Vietnamese: cứng ngắc (vi), cứng nhắc (vi), cứng đầu (vi), cứng cổ (vi)

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Arabic: (please verify) متصلب, (please verify) غير مرن Italian: (please verify) rigido (it) Mandarin: (please verify) 刚性 (zh) (gāngxìng) Spanish: (please verify) rígido (es) Woiwurrung: (please verify) balerrt

Noun

rigid (plural rigids)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

rigid airship

Wikipedia

1. (aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.

   The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.

2. A bicycle with no suspension system.

Synonyms

(airship):

• Zeppelin (broad sense)

Hypernyms

(airship):

• dirigible

Hyponyms

(airship):

• Zeppelin (narrow sense)

Coordinate terms

(airship):

• nonrigid
• semirigid

References

• “rigid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rigid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Iğdır