What are the opposite words for flexible?
Antonyms for the word "flexible" are words that convey the opposite meaning. Rigid, inflexible, stiff, unbending, and inelastic are some such antonyms. When we talk about something being flexible, it refers to its ability to bend, adapt or change as per the circumstances. However, rigid means stiff and unmovable, indicating something that is unable to bend or change direction. Similarly, inflexible means not capable of bending or adapting, rigid in opinions or behavior. Stiff means lacking resilience, making it hard to bend or mold. Unbending is a word that describes people who refuse to be flexible in their ideas or attitude. Inelastic is used to refer to materials that are not stretchable or adaptable.
- positive
- true
- precise
- real
- obstinate
-
uniform
- undiversified,
- well-proportioned,
- in corrigible,
- in-corrigible,
- more unbroken,
- more undiversified,
- more well proportioned,
- more wellproportioned,
- most unbroken,
- most undiversified,
- most well proportioned,
- most well-proportioned,
- most wellproportioned,
- of piece,
- un broken,
- un diversified,
- un-broken,
- un-diversified,
- uni form,
- uni-form,
- wellbalanced.
-
fast
- chop-chop,
- glued,
- Lickety Split,
- like crazy,
- like mad,
- snapper,
- staunch,
- supersonic,
- BLUE STREAK,
- hypersonic,
- in a jiffy,
- like a bat out of hell,
- chop chop,
- chopchop,
- devil may care,
- dis solute,
- dis-solute,
- double-time,
- doubletime,
- hairtrigger,
- hyper sonic,
- hyper-sonic,
- in continent,
- in decent,
- in extricable,
- in jiffy,
- in temperate,
- in-continent,
- in-decent,
- in-extricable,
- in-temperate,
- like a bat out hell,
- like all get out,
- like bat out hell,
- like get out,
- more adherent,
- more chop chop,
- more chop-chop,
- more chopchop,
- more double time,
- more double-time,
- more doubletime,
- more expeditive,
- more gadabout,
- more glued,
- more hairtrigger,
- more hypersonic,
- more permanent,
- more self gratifying,
- more selfgratifying,
- more speedball,
- more supersonic,
- more velocious,
- more wedged,
- most adherent,
- most chop-chop,
- most chopchop,
- most double time,
- most doubletime,
- most expeditive,
- most flashing,
- most gadabout,
- most glued,
- most hairtrigger,
- most hypersonic,
- most self gratifying,
- most selfgratifying,
- most speedball,
- most supersonic,
- most velocious,
- most wedged,
- on double,
- post haste,
- screamin',
- self gratifying,
- self indulgent,
- selfindulgent,
- snappest,
- speedball,
- super sonic,
- super-sonic,
- un chaste,
- un chaster,
- un chastest,
- un-chaste,
- un-chaster,
- un-chastest,
- velocious.
- bent
- resolute
- strong
- brittle
-
thick
- blubbery,
- curdled,
- jellied,
- ropy,
- syrupy,
- vitrified,
- Gummous,
- GUNKY,
- ropier,
- clabbered,
- gloppier,
- gloppiest,
- gloppy,
- gunkier,
- gunkiest,
- more blubbery,
- more clabbered,
- more clotted,
- more curdled,
- more gummous,
- more jellied,
- more syrupy,
- more vitrified,
- most clabbered,
- most clotted,
- most gummous,
- most jellied,
- most syrupy,
- most vitrified.
-
hard
- Difficile,
- Toilful,
- coldblooded,
- hard as nails,
- cold blooded,
- dis agreeable,
- dis-agreeable,
- hard boiled,
- harder,
- in tolerable,
- in-clement,
- in-tolerable,
- more compacted,
- more difficile,
- more indurated,
- more murder,
- more toilful,
- most compacted,
- most difficile,
- most indurated,
- most murder,
- most toilful,
- thick skinned,
- thickskinned,
- un deniable,
- un just,
- un juster,
- un justest,
- un kind,
- un kinder,
- un kindest,
- un pleasant,
- un sympathetic,
- un varnished,
- un-deniable,
- un-just,
- un-juster,
- un-justest,
- un-kind,
- un-kinder,
- un-kindest,
- un-pleasant,
- un-varnished,
- up hill,
- up-hill,
- uphill battle.
-
stable
- well-built,
- brick-wall,
- brickwall,
- deep rooted,
- deeprooted,
- more brick wall,
- more brick-wall,
- more brickwall,
- more poised,
- more stabile,
- more well built,
- more well-built,
- more wellbuilt,
- most brick wall,
- most poised,
- most well built,
- most well-built,
- most wellbuilt,
- staying put,
- un varying,
- un-varying,
- well built,
- wellbuilt.
- solid
- tight
-
predetermined
- preplanned,
- cut and dried,
- cut dried,
- fore ordained,
- fore thought,
- fore-destined,
- fore-thought,
- foredestined,
- more foredestined,
- more foreordained,
- more forethought,
- more precogitated,
- more predestined,
- more preordained,
- more preplanned,
- most foreordained,
- most forethought,
- most precogitated,
- most predestined,
- most preordained,
- pre cogitated,
- pre destined,
- pre determined,
- pre meditated,
- pre ordained,
- pre planned,
- pre-cogitated,
- pre-destined,
- pre-determined,
- pre-meditated,
- pre-ordained,
- precogitated,
- pro posed.
- austere
- authoritarian
-
concrete
- precast,
- Caked,
- Calcified,
- Conglomerated,
- de finite,
- de tailed,
- de-finite,
- de-tailed,
- more caked,
- more calcified,
- more cemented,
- more compressed,
- more concrete,
- more congealed,
- more conglomerated,
- more consolidated,
- more indurate,
- more poured,
- more precast,
- more solidified,
- more steeled,
- most caked,
- most calcified,
- most cemented,
- most compressed,
- most congealed,
- most conglomerated,
- most consolidated,
- most indurate,
- most poured,
- most precast,
- most solidified,
- most steeled,
- pre cast,
- pre-cast.
- demanding
- determined
-
die-hard
- fogyish,
- standpat,
- unreconstructed,
- old-line,
- oldline,
- die hard,
- dyed in the wool,
- more extremist,
- more fogyish,
- more old line,
- more old-line,
- more oldline,
- more standpat,
- more unreconstructed,
- most extremist,
- most fogyish,
- most old line,
- most old-line,
- most oldline,
- most standpat,
- most unreconstructed,
- old line,
- torier,
- toriest,
- ultra conservative,
- ultra-conservative,
- un reconstructed,
- un-reconstructed.
- doctrinaire
- dogged
- domineering
- exacting
-
firm
- close-grained,
- fine-grained,
- nonporous,
- undeviating,
- unfluctuating,
- Riveted,
- never-failing,
- close grained,
- closegrained,
- dead set on,
- ex act,
- ex-act,
- fine grained,
- finegrained,
- hard-line,
- more anchored,
- more braced,
- more close grained,
- more close-grained,
- more closegrained,
- more fine grained,
- more fine-grained,
- more finegrained,
- more jelled,
- more nailed,
- more never-failing,
- more neverfailing,
- more nonporous,
- more screwed,
- more secured,
- more stipulated,
- more tightened,
- more undeviating,
- more welded,
- most anchored,
- most braced,
- most close grained,
- most close-grained,
- most closegrained,
- most fine grained,
- most fine-grained,
- most finegrained,
- most jelled,
- most nailed,
- most never failing,
- most never-failing,
- most neverfailing,
- most nonporous,
- most screwed,
- most secured,
- most soldered,
- most tightened,
- most unfluctuating,
- most welded,
- never failing,
- neverfailing,
- non porous,
- non-porous,
- pre vailing,
- un fluctuating,
- un shaken,
- un-deviating,
- un-fluctuating,
- un-shaken.
-
fixed
- immotile,
- prearranged,
- unblinking,
- de fined,
- de terminate,
- de-fined,
- de-terminate,
- in alterable,
- in bag,
- in-alterable,
- made fast,
- more agreed,
- more arranged,
- more circumscribed,
- more defined,
- more hitched,
- more set up,
- more set-up,
- more unblinking,
- more unmodifiable,
- most agreed,
- most arranged,
- most circumscribed,
- most defined,
- most hitched,
- most immotile,
- most rigged,
- most set up,
- most setup,
- most unblinking,
- most unmodifiable,
- pre-arranged,
- set-up,
- un blinking,
- un modifiable,
- un movable,
- un-blinking,
- un-modifiable,
- un-movable.
- fragile
- fresh
- hard-line
-
harsh
- tuneless,
- unmelodious,
- Asperous,
- Stridulous,
- out of tune,
- unlevel,
- dis agreeing,
- dis courteous,
- dis sonant,
- dis-agreeing,
- dis-courteous,
- dis-sonant,
- hard shell,
- hardshell,
- in compatible,
- in-compatible,
- more asperous,
- more caterwauling,
- more clashing,
- more creaking,
- more cussed,
- more jangling,
- more out of tune,
- more out-of-tune,
- more stridulous,
- more tuneless,
- most asperous,
- most clashing,
- most creaking,
- most cussed,
- most jangling,
- most out of key,
- most out of tune,
- most out-of-tune,
- most screeching,
- most stridulous,
- most tuneless,
- most unlevel,
- most unmelodious,
- not smooth,
- offkey,
- out of key,
- out-of-key,
- out-of-tune,
- un civil,
- un even,
- un gracious,
- un level,
- un melodious,
- un-civil,
- un-even,
- un-gracious,
- un-level,
- un-melodious,
- un-musical.
- immovable
- irreconcilable
-
loyal
- true.
- rigorous
-
rocklike
- hard.
-
rocky
- bouldered,
- lithic,
- pebbly,
- petrous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- rocklike,
- stonelike,
- Lapidarian,
- in sensate,
- in sensitive,
- in-sensate,
- in-sensitive,
- more lapidarian,
- more petrous,
- more rockbound,
- more rocklike,
- more rockribbed,
- more stonelike,
- most bouldered,
- most lapidarian,
- most lithic,
- most petrous,
- most rock ribbed,
- most rock-ribbed,
- most rockbound,
- most rocklike,
- most rockribbed,
- most stonelike,
- pebbliest,
- rock ribbed,
- rockribbed,
- un reliable,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-reliable,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest.
- ruthless
-
secure
- at ease,
- safe and sound,
- cincher,
- Undoubtful,
- solid as a rock,
- buttoned down,
- cinchest,
- locked on,
- more adjusted,
- more shooin,
- more unanxious,
- more undoubtful,
- most adjusted,
- most reassured,
- most shoo in,
- most shoo-in,
- most shooin,
- most unanxious,
- most undoubtful,
- re assured,
- re liabler,
- re liablest,
- re-assured,
- re-liable,
- re-liabler,
- re-liablest,
- safe sound,
- self assured,
- selfassured,
- selfconfident,
- shoo in,
- shooin,
- solid as rock,
- un anxious,
- un doubtful,
- un-anxious,
- wellfounded.
-
speedy
- fast.
- steadfast
- steady
- stern
-
stiff
- arthritic,
- buckram,
- creaky,
- rheumatic,
- Unflexible,
- creakier,
- be numbed,
- be-numbed,
- creakiest,
- in-ordinate,
- more annealed,
- more arthritic,
- more buckram,
- more chilled,
- more contracted,
- more numbed,
- more rheumatic,
- more thickened,
- more unflexible,
- more unrelaxed,
- most annealed,
- most arthritic,
- most buckram,
- most chilled,
- most contracted,
- most numbed,
- most rheumatic,
- most thickened,
- most unflexible,
- most unrelaxed,
- stiff as a board,
- stiff as board,
- un conscionable,
- un due,
- un duest,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- un flexible,
- un gainlier,
- un gainliest,
- un gainly,
- un graceful,
- un relaxed,
- un supple,
- un suppler,
- un supplest,
- un-conscionable,
- un-due,
- un-duer,
- un-duest,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest,
- un-flexible,
- un-gainly,
- un-graceful,
- un-natural,
- un-relaxed,
- un-supple,
- un-suppler,
- un-supplest,
- unsupple,
- unsuppler,
- unsupplest.
- strict
- stubborn
-
tough
- ruffianly,
- hard-shelled,
- hard bitten,
- hard shelled,
- hardbitten,
- hardshelled,
- in digestible,
- in-digestible,
- more hard shelled,
- more hard-shelled,
- more hardshelled,
- more molded,
- more withstanding,
- most cohesive,
- most hard shelled,
- most hard-shelled,
- most hardshelled,
- most molded,
- most ruffianly,
- most withstanding,
- tough as nails,
- un controllable,
- un-controllable,
- with standing,
- with-standing.
- unrelenting
- unshakable
-
wooden
- clapboard,
- framer,
- ligneous,
- logger,
- slabber,
- timbered,
- Pegger,
- Unhandy,
- boardest,
- framest,
- heavy handed,
- heavyhanded,
- in elegant,
- in-elegant,
- loggest,
- more clapboard,
- more ligneous,
- more timber,
- more timbered,
- most clapboard,
- most ligneous,
- most timber,
- plantest,
- slabbest,
- un handier,
- un handiest,
- un handy,
- un-handier,
- un-handy,
- unhandier,
- unhandiest.
-
adamant
- hard-nosed,
- immovable,
- indestructible,
- set in stone,
- stubborn,
- unbreakable,
- Unswayable,
- rock-hard,
- hard nosed,
- hardnosed,
- in destructible,
- in-destructible,
- more hard nosed,
- more rock hard,
- more rock-hard,
- more rockhard,
- more unswayable,
- most intransigent,
- most rock hard,
- most rock-hard,
- most rockhard,
- most unswayable,
- rock hard,
- rockhard,
- set stone,
- un bendable,
- un breakable,
- un shakable,
- un swayable,
- un-breakable,
- un-swayable.
- breakable
- consistent
- crisp
-
crumbly
- fragile,
- rotted,
- Pulverizable,
- softer,
- de generated,
- de-generated,
- dis integrated,
- dis-integrated,
- more corroded,
- more degenerated,
- more deteriorating,
- more disintegrated,
- more eroded,
- more fragile,
- more oxidized,
- more perishing,
- more pulverizable,
- more rotted,
- more rusted,
- most corroded,
- most degenerated,
- most deteriorating,
- most disintegrated,
- most eroded,
- most oxidized,
- most perishing,
- most pulverizable,
- most rotted,
- most rusted.
-
crusty
- vinegary,
- well-done,
- ill humored,
- illhumored,
- more ill humored,
- more ill-humored,
- more illhumored,
- more snarling,
- more vinegary,
- more well baked,
- more well done,
- more well-baked,
- more well-done,
- more wellbaked,
- more welldone,
- most ill humored,
- most ill-humored,
- most illhumored,
- most splenetic,
- most vinegary,
- most well baked,
- most well done,
- most well-baked,
- most well-done,
- most wellbaked,
- most welldone,
- short tempered,
- shorttempered,
- well baked,
- well done,
- well-baked,
- wellbaked,
- welldone.
-
decided
- set,
- strong-minded,
- de liberate,
- de-liberate,
- iron jawed,
- ironjawed,
- more iron jawed,
- more iron-jawed,
- more ironjawed,
- more strong minded,
- more strong-minded,
- most iron jawed,
- most iron-jawed,
- most ironjawed,
- most strong minded,
- most strong-minded,
- most strongminded,
- strong minded,
- un faltering,
- un hesitating,
- un wavering,
- un-faltering,
- un-hesitating,
- un-wavering.
-
dogmatic
- by nature,
- deductive,
- doctrinal,
- fascistic,
- on faith,
- peremptory,
- wrongheaded,
- ex cathedra,
- wrong-headed,
- excathedra,
- as a matter of course,
- Over-bearing,
- as a matter course,
- as matter course,
- as matter of course,
- by fiat,
- by natural law,
- ex-cathedra,
- high mighty,
- in evitable,
- in tolerant,
- in-evitable,
- in-tolerant,
- more deductive,
- more excathedra,
- more fascistic,
- more wrong headed,
- more wrong-headed,
- more wrongheaded,
- most deductive,
- most doctrinal,
- most excathedra,
- most fascistic,
- most reasoned,
- most wrong headed,
- most wrong-headed,
- most wrongheaded,
- narrow minded,
- narrowminded,
- over bearing,
- un changeable,
- un equivocal,
- un erring,
- un qualified,
- un-changeable,
- un-equivocal,
- un-qualified,
- wrong headed.
- faithful
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
-
inflexible
- firm,
- refractory,
- steely,
- taut,
- unadaptable,
- Immalleable,
- Impliable,
- Starched,
- steelier,
- stand one's ground,
- in flexible,
- in-flexible,
- more immalleable,
- more impliable,
- more nonflexible,
- more starched,
- more unadaptable,
- most immalleable,
- most impliable,
- most nonflexible,
- most starched,
- most unadaptable,
- non flexible,
- non-flexible,
- nonflexible,
- set in one ways,
- set in one's ways,
- set in ones ways,
- set in ways,
- set one ways,
- set one's ways,
- set ones ways,
- set ways,
- stand ground,
- stand one ground,
- stand ones ground,
- steeliest,
- un adaptable,
- un compliant,
- un-adaptable,
- un-compliant.
- intent
- iron
- merciless
- relentless
- rigid
- stringent
-
unbending
- do die,
- do or die,
- hold fort,
- hold ground,
- hold line,
- hold ones ground,
- hold the fort,
- re served,
- re-served,
- standing ground,
- standing one ground,
- standing one's ground,
- standing ones ground,
- sticking guns,
- sticking one guns,
- sticking one's guns,
- sticking ones guns,
- sticking to guns,
- sticking to one guns,
- sticking to one's guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- un bending,
- un-bending.
- unchangeable
- unchanging
- uncompromising
- unflinching
- unyielding
- willful
- all
- set
- all-or-nothing
- accepting no less than everything
- severe in manner
- easily hurt or destroyed
- actual, factual
- brittle, dry
- irritable, often due to old age
- determined, strong-willed
- challenging, urgent
- driven, persistent
- determined, persistent
- dictatorial, opinionated
- pliable, bendable
- refreshing to the senses
- rough, crude (to the senses)
- merciless, cruel
- steadfast, unyielding
- cruel, pitiless
- determined, resolute
-
hard, tough; inflexible
- iron.
- hostile, conflicting
- unsuitably adapted
- mean, heartless
- firmly fixed
- exact, accurate
- decided in advance
-
genuine in existence
- real.
- cruel, merciless
- stiff, strict, severe
- severe; exact
- rugged, stony
- fastened, stable
- hard, dimensional
- constant, fixed; resistant
- hard, inflexible
- rigid, tight
- distinct, unmistakable
- tight, stretched
- deep, bulky
- close, snug
- sturdy, strong
- rigid, tough
- constant, permanent
- steadfast, resolute
- stubborn, obstinate
- made of timber
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