Word Meanings - INFLEXIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
Additional info about word: INFLEXIBLE
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison. 3. Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts. Syn. -- -- Unbending; unyielding; rigid; inexorable; pertinacious; obstinate; stubborn; unrelenting.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFLEXIBLE)
- Resolute
- Determined
- decided
- steadfast
- fixed
- steady
- constant
- persevering
- stout
- pertinacious
- energetic
- dogged
- stout-hearted
- inflexible
- undaunted
- undeviating
- unflinching
- Stiff
- Unbending
- rigid
- unyielding
- unpliant
- stroux
- stubborn
- obstinate
- constrained
- affected
- starched
- formal
- ceremonious
- difficult
- Stubborn
- Tough
- unbending
- hard
- intractable
- obdurate
- stiff
- harsh
- headstrong
- refractory
- heady
- contumacious
- pig-headed
Related words: (words related to INFLEXIBLE)
- PERSEVERANCE
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info) - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - PIG-HEADED
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n. - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - PERSEVER
To persevere. - STARCHER
One who starches. - UNDAUNTABLE
Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - RIGID
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - DECIDER
One who decides. - RIGIDLY
In a rigid manner; stiffly. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - DECIDEMENT
Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl. - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - HARSH
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste. - CONSTANTIA
A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - REFIX
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - DEFIX
To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt. - AFFIXION
Affixture. T. Adams. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - INDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv. - UNIFORMAL
Uniform. Herrick. - RESTIFF
Restive.