Word Meanings - RIGIDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a rigid manner; stiffly.

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• 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.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• RIGIDULOUS
  Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• RIGIDNESS
  The quality or state of being rigid.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• STIFFLY
  In a stiff manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
• FRIGIDARIUM
  The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
• SUBRIGID
  Somewhat rigid or stiff.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• FRIGIDITY
  1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness
• FRIGIDNESS
  The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INFRIGIDATION
  The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. Boyle.
• OVERRIGID
  Too rigid; too severe.
• FRIGIDLY
  In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.