rigid
adjective
stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard.
rigidly
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a word derived from
rigid.
Example Sentences
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It is also highly flexible, allowing it to move along with brain tissue rather than pressing rigidly through it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
In Zvernec, because it was a rigidly protected area for environmental conservation by law, people did receive titles, but those titles didn’t permit them to develop their property however they wanted.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Stupak credits Fedorov with achieving something no-one would have imagined possible ten years ago: dragging the sclerotic, rigidly inflexible military into the digital world.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Whatever agendas they may personally espouse, these writers are too alert to the messiness of history and human nature to be rigidly ideological in their work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
New laws were passed in the slave states and the old laws were more rigidly enforced.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
