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.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• 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.