Word Meanings - INELASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not elastic.

ELASTIC
1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
ELASTICITY
1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
ELASTICALLY
In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
ELASTICNESS
The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
ELASTICAL
Elastic. Bentley.
UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity.
INELASTICITY
Want of elasticity.
GELASTIC
Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.
INELASTIC
Not elastic.
NONELASTIC
Not having elasticity.
UNELASTIC
Not elastic; inelastic.