Rigid

Spanish Meaning

rígido

yerto

inflexible

envarado

English Meaning

  1. Not flexible or pliant; stiff.
  2. Not moving; fixed.
  3. Marked by a lack of flexibility; rigorous and exacting: "We have watered down a rigid training . . . until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses” ( Agnes Meyer).
  4. Scrupulously maintained or performed: rigid discipline. See Synonyms at stiff.