What are the antonyms for RIGID?
- hanging, accepting, indulgent, complaisant, porous, gentle, indefinite, charitable, unfixed, tractable, flexile, forbearing, slovenly, negligent, inexact, responsive, patient, bending, sweet, merciful, broken, clement, spoiling, agreeable, permeable, semisoft, willing, tolerant, pliable, tender, limber, remiss, yielding, nonrigid, thin, moving, compliant, kindly, flexible, imprecise, irresolute, unreliable, pampering, softhearted, lenient, mild, compromising, workable, acquiescent, soft, kind, bendable, amenable, neglectful, loosened, sloppy, airy, affable, pliant, slipshod, bland, genial, undemanding, scattered, easy.
Synonyms for RIGID
- precise,
- locked in,
- basic,
- narrow,
- intense,
- flinty,
- stuffy,
- Impliable,
- arthritic,
- authoritarian,
- righteous,
- imperial,
- inalterable,
- inexorable,
- go for broke,
- prudish,
- matter of fact,
- for good,
- tyrannic,
- stiff,
- erect,
- hidebound,
- brusque,
- invariable,
- tense,
- exacting,
- standpat,
- immense,
- ironhanded,
- dense,
- small-minded,
- cliquish,
- abrupt,
- disciplined,
- rheumatic,
- sectarian,
- hard-core,
- hard line,
- narrow-minded,
- nonporous,
- bloody-minded,
- on the button,
- ferric,
- nonflexible,
- by the book,
- blinkered,
- gruff,
- coldhearted,
- oldline,
- no-nonsense,
- made fast,
- uncompliant,
- undeviating,
- brick wall,
- impregnable,
- ferrous,
- irritable,
- whatever happens,
- hang in,
- cussed,
- not heretical,
- hang-tough,
- behaviour,
- firm,
- unloving,
- die hard,
- stark,
- tight,
- no picnic,
- squawky,
- not easy,
- out-of-key,
- snug,
- cold-shoulder,
- Iron-fisted,
- like death and taxes,
- ironfisted,
- small town,
- cutting,
- adamant,
- counter-revolutionary,
- unrelenting,
- tough as nails,
- solidity,
- rock-hard,
- bearish,
- wooden,
- final,
- out and out,
- gridlocked,
- over-nice,
- resist,
- stockstill,
- steely,
- skintight,
- Inductile,
- irredeemable,
- exact,
- tenacious,
- unamenable,
- abiding,
- curt,
- set,
- meat and potatoes,
- taut,
- uncluttered,
- strenuous,
- ingrained,
- Unhandy,
- entrenched,
- erectile,
- indelible,
- self-willed,
- hardboiled,
- immutable,
- set in stone,
- unwaivering,
- crisp,
- fossilized,
- draconian,
- uncompromising,
- intractable,
- nit-picking,
- obscurantist,
- chilly,
- condign,
- overkill,
- abstinent,
- stringent,
- bullheaded,
- straightlaced,
- doctrinaire,
- unfading,
- buckram,
- blunt,
- tuneless,
- passionless,
- ceremonialistic,
- old line,
- undiversified,
- censorious,
- mired,
- run of the mill,
- Unflexible,
- conventional,
- stern,
- rigid,
- lock stock and barrel,
- irremediable,
- constant,
- unfluctuating,
- forced,
- easier said than done,
- unmoving,
- immobile,
- unmelodious,
- critical,
- secure,
- irreversible,
- refractory,
- hell bent on,
- out of tune,
- brass-bound,
- conservative,
- stiffly,
- old-line,
- well-proportioned,
- rock-solid,
- inelastic,
- straight out,
- hardheaded,
- uniform,
- unpersuadable,
- packed,
- strait-laced,
- religious,
- fine-grained,
- demanding,
- stand one's ground,
- iron-handed,
- never-failing,
- changeless,
- hard-bitten,
- tough,
- fractious,
- doctrinal,
- icy,
- prim,
- brick-wall,
- unbending,
- solid,
- brassbound,
- austere,
- out of proportion,
- dogged,
- settled,
- tough nut,
- Hard-headed,
- close-minded,
- headstrong,
- out-of-tune,
- up-stream,
- conscripted,
- galling,
- unvarying,
- unaccommodating,
- head-strong,
- solid as rock,
- unyielding,
- in rut,
- accurate,
- hardhanded,
- unsmiling,
- Undesigning,
- close-grained,
- obdurate,
- Perseverant,
- closed-minded,
- intolerant,
- creakier,
- pertinacious,
- Stridulous,
- osseous,
- frigid,
- hardnosed,
- well-balanced,
- Arrect,
- closed,
- acute,
- Unimpressible,
- unmitigated,
- spic and span,
- no nonsense,
- mulish,
- stodgy,
- catatonic,
- astringent,
- incompressible,
- undivided,
- solid as a rock,
- unmovable,
- bigoted,
- strict,
- over-modest,
- dead set on,
- deadlocked,
- ironclad,
- Incompliant,
- imperishable,
- willful,
- grim,
- non-discriminatory,
- long-term,
- bullhead,
- straitlaced,
- hard-won,
- unalleviated,
- ethical,
- Operose,
- Difficile,
- reactionary,
- even,
- not smooth,
- contrary,
- undistracted,
- bigot,
- no going back,
- pigheaded,
- stuck,
- spic-and-span,
- mule,
- regressive,
- acrimonious,
- unbendable,
- nonmoving,
- meticulous,
- unadventurous,
- dour,
- cool,
- remorseless,
- obstinate,
- Starched,
- coldshoulder,
- harsh,
- finally,
- rightful,
- paralyzed,
- Pig-headed,
- hard-nosed,
- raw,
- determined,
- ruber,
- state,
- unmixed,
- definite,
- Hard-handed,
- hard shell,
- non-conformist,
- bleak,
- stunned,
- oldmaidish,
- single-minded,
- hardbitten,
- scratchy,
- bovine,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- non-partisan,
- clear cut,
- Asperous,
- sharp,
- of a piece,
- neoconservative,
- extra ordinary,
- piquant,
- bull-headed,
- Steeler,
- semirigid,
- governed,
- stubborn,
- static,
- tough nut to crack,
- stiff-necked,
- Hard-hearted,
- unalterable,
- prearranged,
- brisk,
- rooted/glued/frozen to the spot,
- extreme,
- immotile,
- singleminded,
- oafish,
- frosty,
- inextensible,
- puritanical,
- dead set,
- timeless,
- isolationist,
- inflexible,
- factional,
- veridical,
- difficult,
- hard core,
- unchanging,
- incurable,
- chiseled,
- unchangeable,
- spare,
- hard-line,
- fundamental,
- formalistic,
- overmodest,
- catch,
- unlevel,
- short,
- immovable,
- dry,
- caustic,
- effortful,
- keen,
- nondiscriminatory,
- blue-nose,
- mossbacked,
- just,
- oppressive,
- unabated,
- unreconstructed,
- egregious,
- lean,
- regimented,
- prescriptive,
- backbreaker,
- stiff as a board,
- unchallengeable,
- tart,
- ultra-conservative,
- at a standstill,
- callous,
- painful,
- ardorless,
- unchanged,
- creaky,
- stable,
- at rest,
- unbreakable,
- iron,
- resolute,
- invincible,
- rigorous,
- upstream,
- die-hard,
- suburban,
- dictative,
- parochial,
- intransigent,
- unpermissive,
- set in one's ways,
- Riveted,
- acerbic,
- counterrevolutionary,
- uncolored,
- impenetrable,
- nonnegotiable,
- starchy,
- hard as nails,
- implacable,
- fixed,
- unadaptable,
- severe,
- Bluenose,
- well-set,
- opinionated,
- Stickling,
- adamantine,
- spartan,
- irrevocable,
- ossified,
- ascetic,
- relentless,
- perseverative,
- hard to please,
- hard,
- straight-laced,
- correct,
- close-fitting.
Usage Examples for RIGID
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" How very fortunate," thought Matilda and then took her rigid stand across the room. - "A Son of the Hills" by Harriet T. Comstock
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Monmouth seemed turned to stone; I could see his face set and rigid, although light failed me to catch that look in the eyes by which you may best know a man's mood. - "Simon Dale" by Anthony Hope
