inflexible
inflexible is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- adamant
- adamantean
- adamantine
- and
- are
- arms
- block
- board
- bone
- bony
- brick
- buckram
- calculous
- callosity
- cartilage
- cartilaginous
- cast
- cement
- concrete
- corneous
- crag
- crystal
- crystallization
- deal
- durity
- elasticity
- faith
- firm
- flint
- fort
- fossil
- gens
- granite
- granitic
- gritty
- hard
- harden
- hardness
- hardware
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is inflexible.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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