Definition of Rigid

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Definition of Rigid
	Rigid Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. Related Definitions: As, Criticism, Discipline, Father, Firm, Flexible, Hence, Indulgent, Inflexible, Lax, Master, Not, Or, Pliant, Rigid, Sentence, Severe, Stiff, Strict

Rigid Quotations

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
Roy Lichtenstein

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Hans Bender

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Zi

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward James Olmos

Rigid Translations

rigid in Danish is stiv
rigid in Dutch is stram, star, stijf, houterig, stug
rigid in Finnish is kankea
rigid in French is rigide
rigid in German is starre, starr, steif
rigid in Italian is rigido
rigid in Latin is austerus
rigid in Swedish is fast

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