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| Main Entry: | rigid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, strict, severe |
| Synonyms: | adamant, austere, bullheaded, changeless, definite, determined, exact, firm, fixed, hard, hard-line*, harsh, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, invariable, obdurate, rigorous, set, single-minded, solid, static, stern, strait-laced*, stringent, unalterable, unbending, unbreakable, unchanging, uncompromising, unmoving, unrelenting, unyielding, adamantine, chiseled, dead set, incompliant, locked in, set in stone, tough nut to crack, undeviating, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | bending, flexible, lenient, limber, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | authoritarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domineering |
| Synonyms: | absolute, authoritative, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, dogmatic, harsh, imperious, magisterial, rigid, severe, strict, totalitarian, tyrannical, unyielding |
| Notes: | authoritarian is tyrannical while authoritative commands respect |
| Antonyms: | democratic, liberal |
| Main Entry: | doctrinaire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dogmatic, opinionated |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded*, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded*, rigid, speculative, stubborn, unrealistic, dictative, stiff-necked* |
| Antonyms: | amenable, flexible, manageable, obedient, submissive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dogged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | determined, persistent |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullheaded*, firm, hard-nosed, hardheaded*, indefatigable, inexorable, inflexible, insistent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded*, relentless, resolute, rigid, single-minded, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, unflagging, unshakable, unyielding, hanging tough, perseverant, perseverative, tough nut |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, irresolute, undetermined, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straight up |
| Synonyms: | elevated, firm, perpendicular, raised, rigid, standing, stiff, upright, upstanding, vertical, arrect, cocked, erectile |
| Antonyms: | prone, prostrate |
| Main Entry: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking |
| Antonyms: | giving, lending |
| Main Entry: | flinty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stern |
| Synonyms: | cruel, firm, hard, inflexible, rigid, stony, unsympathetic, unyielding, steely |
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, binding, bound, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden*, begrudging, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, grudging |
| Antonyms: | spontaneous, voluntary, noncompulsory, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hard-core |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dedicated |
| Synonyms: | determined, devoted, die-hard*, dyed-in-the-wool*, explicit, extreme, faithful, intransigent, obstinate, resolute, rigid, staunch, steadfast, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding, unwaivering |
| Antonyms: | indulgent, mild, moderate, tolerant, soft-core, undedicated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immobile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | motionless, fixed |
| Synonyms: | frozen, immovable, pat, quiescent, rigid, rooted, stable, stagnant, static, stationary, steadfast, stiff, still, stolid, unmoving, anchored, at a standstill, at rest, immobilized, immotile, nailed, nailed down, riveted, stock-still, unmovable |
| Antonyms: | mobile, movable, moving, unfixed |
| Main Entry: | inexorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, pitiless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bound, bound and determined, compulsory, dogged, hard, harsh, immobile, immovable, implacable, ineluctable, inescapable, inflexible, ironclad, mean business*, merciless, necessary, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, remorseless, resolute, rigid, severe, single-minded, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, adamantine, dead set on, hell bent on, like death and taxes, locked in, no going back, set in stone, unappeasable, unmovable |
| Antonyms: | flexible, lenient, merciful, remorseful, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invariable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not changing |
| Synonyms: | changeless, consistent, constant, fixed, immovable, immutable, inflexible, monotonous, perpetual, regular, rigid, same, set, static, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unfailing, uniform, unvarying, unwavering, inalterable, undiversified, unmodifiable, unrelieved |
| Antonyms: | changeable, changing, variable, varying |
| Main Entry: | iron |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, tough; inflexible |
| Synonyms: | adamant, cruel, dense, firm, heavy, immovable, implacable, indomitable, inexorable, insensible, obdurate, relentless, rigid, robust, steel, strong, stubborn, thick, unbending, unyielding, adamantine, ferric, ferrous, steely |
| Antonyms: | flexible, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | obdurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pigheaded, stubborn |
| Synonyms: | adamant, callous, cold fish*, dogged, firm, fixed, hard, hard-boiled*, hard-nosed, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, iron*, mean, mulish*, obstinate, perverse, relentless, rigid, thick-skinned*, tough, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unemotional, unfeeling, unrelenting, unshakable, unsympathetic, unyielding, bullhead, hanging tough, hard-hearted, indurate, set in stone, stiff-necked*, tough nut to crack, uncompassionate, unimpressible |
| Antonyms: | amenable, gentle, submissive, susceptible, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ossified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bony |
| Synonyms: | hard, hardened, petrified, rigid, fossilized |
| Main Entry: | prim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody*, nice, orderly, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape*, spruce, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy*, tidy, upright, well-groomed, wooden*, blue-nose, nit-picking, overmodest, spic-and-span*, stickling, uncluttered |
| Antonyms: | informal, rumpled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
| Synonyms: | Victorian*, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, precise, pretentious, priggish*, prim, prissy*, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, square, squeamish*, starchy*, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, simpering |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puritanical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | proper, straitlaced |
| Synonyms: | austere, conforming, moral, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, rigid, stern, strict, stuffy, abstinent |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | die-hard*, orthodox, right, rigid, traditional, counterrevolutionary, obscurantist, old-line, regressive, retrogressive, rightist, standpat, tory, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe; exact |
| Synonyms: | accurate, ascetic, austere, bitter, brutal, burdensome, correct, definite, dogmatic, exacting, hard, harsh, inclement, inflexible, intemperate, meticulous, nice, onerous, oppressive, precise, proper, punctilious, right, rigid, rugged, scrupulous, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, uncompromising, ironhanded, unpermissive |
| Antonyms: | easy, lax, lenient, loose, mild, easy-going |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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