Inflexible
[ɪn'fleksɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'flɛksəbl]
Definition
(adj.) resistant to being bent; 'an inflexible iron bar'; 'an inflexible knife blade'; .
(adj.) incapable of change; 'a man of inflexible purpose' .
(adj.) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; 'a rigid disciplinarian'; 'an inflexible law'; 'an unbending will to dominate' .
Edited by Ben--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
(a.) Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn.
(a.) Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Stiff, rigid.[2]. Pertinacious, dogged, stubborn, obstinate, unyielding, refractory, headstrong, wilful, cantankerous, intractable, heady, obdurate, cross-grained.[3]. Firm, resolute, steadfast, immovable, persevering.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FLEXIBLE]
Edited by Candice
Examples
- Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I should not like to have to bargain with him; he looks very inflexible. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the midst of this intemperate riot, Attila alone, without change of countenance, maintained his steadfast and inflexible gravity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet, in latter days, illness had taken from my poor girl the full outline of her face, and reduced it to the inflexible shape of the bone beneath. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have been a child of battle from my youth upward, high in my views, steady and inflexible in pursuing them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- These ideas made him inflexible in his rule, and violent in his hate of any who presumed to share with him his usurped empire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- By your visiting proposition,' said Bounderby, with an inflexible jerk of the hayfield. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We cannot be sure that any natures, however inflexible or peculiar, will resist this effect from a more massive being than their own. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The rebellious spirit of Tom Paine expressed itself in logical formul? as inflexible to the pace of life as did the more contented Hamilton's. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The entreaties to remain were pressing, but Mr. Pickwick was inflexible. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If she were to continue inflexible in the line of conduct she now pursued, they must part. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Such an inflexible little woman, too, through all! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Here the honest but inflexible servant clapped the door to and bolted it within. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To London, ma'am,' resumed the inflexible beadle, 'by coach. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Calls me proud and inflexible in this breath! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ingenious reasoning, refined and subtile consultation, were in him combined with prompt resolution and inflexible firmness of purpose. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such must I remain--proud, inflexible, and unchanging; and of this the world shall have proof. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was her act, and she kept its motives in her inflexible heart. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She tried to reason with him, and finding him inflexible, learned to hate him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His tradition is a high one; he is often a man of exceptional quality, but the system is unimaginative and inflexible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Candice