Rigid

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Stiff, rather than flexible..

Definitions by Sense

1. Stiff, rather than flexible.
2. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
3. Fixed, rather than moving.
4. Rigorous and unbending.
5. Uncompromising.
6. (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.
7. A bicycle with no suspension system.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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Word Forms

• rigider
• more rigid
• rigidest
• most rigid
• rigids

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