Synonyms for Rigid:

• adj.

  •accurate (adjective)
  • un-erring,
  • de fined,
  • veracious,
  • on the money,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • ultra precise,
  • most ultraprecise,
  • more concrete,
  • ex-act,
  • dis criminative,
  • de finite,
  • de-finite,
  • re gular,
  • un-mistakable,
  • un erring,
  • ex act,
  • on nose,
  • faithful,
  • re-gular,
  • more careful,
  • more defined,
  • more ultraprecise,
  • dis-criminating,
  • unerring,
  • on money,
  • un mistakable,
  • ultraprecise,
  • explicit,
  • dis-criminative,
  • de tailed,
  • on button,
  • de-tailed,
  • de-fined,
  • dis criminating,
  • most defined,
  • ultra-precise.
  •adamant (adjective)
  • more unswayable,
  • hard-nosed,
  • un shakable,
  • un bending,
  • hard nosed,
  • un-shakable,
  • un swayable,
  • Unswayable,
  • set stone,
  • re solute,
  • un-swayable,
  • immovable,
  • un-bending,
  • most unswayable,
  • more hard nosed,
  • most intransigent,
  • re-solute.
  •all (adjective)
  • rigid.
  •austere (adjective)
  • forbidding,
  • somber,
  • more serious,
  • un-feeling,
  • un feeling.
  •authoritarian (adjective)
  • most disciplinarian,
  • more disciplinarian.
  •bony (adjective)
  • ossified.
  •close-minded (adjective)
  • un-persuadable,
  • most unpersuadable,
  • un persuadable,
  • in tolerant,
  • close minded,
  • more unpersuadable,
  • unpersuadable,
  • closeminded.
  •closed-minded (adjective)
  • closedminded,
  • closed minded.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • up tight,
  • stereo typed,
  • more straightlaced,
  • most isolationist,
  • up-tight,
  • more doctrinal,
  • obstinate,
  • most doctrinal,
  • more straight laced,
  • most straightlaced,
  • narrowminded,
  • straight laced,
  • most straight laced,
  • hidebound,
  • lamest,
  • rubest,
  • rube,
  • most straight-laced,
  • more isolationist,
  • stereo-typed,
  • more straight-laced,
  • narrow minded,
  • de mure,
  • de-mure.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • not easy,
  • immense,
  • galling,
  • no picnic,
  • irritable,
  • strenuous,
  • hard-won,
  • easier said than done,
  • unamenable,
  • bearish,
  • effortful,
  • Difficile,
  • backbreaker,
  • unaccommodating,
  • fractious,
  • hard to please,
  • Operose,
  • upstream,
  • painful,
  • up-stream,
  • oafish.
  •doctrinaire (adjective)
  • stiff-necked,
  • doctrinaire,
  • dictative.
  •dogged (adjective)
  • most perseverant,
  • more perseverative,
  • un-flagging,
  • most perseverative,
  • hardheaded,
  • more perseverant,
  • most hardheaded,
  • un flagging,
  • staunch.
  •erect (adjective)
  • up-right,
  • most erectile,
  • more arrect,
  • elevated,
  • more erectile,
  • up standing,
  • more cocked,
  • most cocked,
  • up-standing,
  • up right,
  • most arrect.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • more nit picking,
  • un-sparing,
  • hyper-critical,
  • ex acting,
  • more nit-picking,
  • unsparing,
  • un sparing,
  • hyper critical,
  • most nit-picking,
  • by book,
  • most nit picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • nit picking.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • out and out,
  • extra ordinary,
  • extreme,
  • egregious,
  • out of proportion,
  • overkill.
  •firm (adjective)
  • non porous,
  • more fine-grained,
  • more closegrained,
  • most fine grained,
  • most jelled,
  • most solidified,
  • fine grained,
  • most finegrained,
  • most compressed,
  • more congealed,
  • closegrained,
  • most close grained,
  • finegrained,
  • most fine-grained,
  • most close-grained,
  • more solidified,
  • more close grained,
  • non-porous,
  • more compressed,
  • more finegrained,
  • more close-grained,
  • close grained,
  • more jelled,
  • most closegrained,
  • more nonporous,
  • more fine grained,
  • most congealed,
  • most nonporous.
  •fixed (adjective)
  • most immotile,
  • most anchored,
  • more anchored,
  • located,
  • more hitched,
  • most hitched,
  • more attached,
  • more nailed,
  • most nailed,
  • most attached,
  • more immotile.
  •flinty (adjective)
  • steely,
  • flinty.
  •forced (adjective)
  • un-natural,
  • insincere,
  • in sincerer,
  • un-willing,
  • in-sincere,
  • be-grudging,
  • more compelled,
  • most begrudging,
  • in voluntary,
  • most coerced,
  • in sincere,
  • more conscripted,
  • most compelled,
  • be grudging,
  • more begrudging,
  • more grudging,
  • in-voluntary,
  • un willing,
  • most conscripted,
  • most grudging,
  • slavest,
  • more coerced,
  • in sincerest,
  • in-sincerest,
  • in-sincerer.
  •formal (adjective)
  • most ceremonialistic,
  • stereo-typical,
  • more ritual,
  • ex-press,
  • most formalistic,
  • formal,
  • stereo typical,
  • more formalistic,
  • pre scribed,
  • ex press,
  • most ritual,
  • more ceremonialistic,
  • pre-scribed.
  •frigid (adjective)
  • un-approachable,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • more cold shoulder,
  • more unloving,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • un approachable,
  • cold hearted,
  • un loving,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • unapproachable,
  • in-different,
  • most unloving,
  • un-loving,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • in different.
  •hard (adjective)
  • hard-bitten,
  • callous,
  • solid,
  • harder.
  •hard-bitten (adjective)
  • hardhanded,
  • Hard-handed,
  • hardbitten.
  •hard-core (adjective)
  • de voted,
  • de-voted,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • most unwaivering,
  • more unwaivering.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • more out of key,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • more screeching,
  • out of key,
  • most out-of-key,
  • most caterwauling,
  • most screeching,
  • most jangling,
  • un-musical,
  • more unmelodious,
  • un level,
  • most creaking,
  • un-melodious,
  • most asperous,
  • more creaking,
  • most clashing,
  • more tuneless,
  • dis-sonant,
  • most out-of-tune,
  • most out of key,
  • un-even,
  • most stridulous,
  • more stridulous,
  • in compatible,
  • dis sonant,
  • offkey,
  • un musical,
  • more out-of-tune,
  • more asperous,
  • more unlevel,
  • more caterwauling,
  • more clashing,
  • in-compatible,
  • un even,
  • un melodious,
  • more out of tune,
  • unmusical,
  • most unmelodious,
  • more jangling,
  • most unlevel,
  • off key,
  • most tuneless,
  • un-level,
  • more out-of-key,
  • most out of tune,
  • dis agreeing.
  •immobile (adjective)
  • nailed down,
  • most immobilized,
  • un-moving,
  • stock still,
  • at standstill,
  • more riveted,
  • most riveted,
  • un moving,
  • more immobilized.
  •inalterable (adjective)
  • in-alterable,
  • in alterable.
  •incompliant (adjective)
  • mulest,
  • muler,
  • in-compliant,
  • in compliant,
  • most brassbound,
  • more brassbound.
  •incompressible (adjective)
  • in-compressible,
  • in compressible.
  •inelastic (adjective)
  • Inductile,
  • inextensible.
  •inexorable (adjective)
  • un-appeasable,
  • like death taxes,
  • un appeasable,
  • in-escapable,
  • in escapable,
  • in-exorable,
  • bound determined,
  • in exorable.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • un changeable,
  • more impliable,
  • most impliable,
  • set ways,
  • Immalleable,
  • un-changeable,
  • non-flexible,
  • stand one ground,
  • most unadaptable,
  • most starched,
  • most immalleable,
  • set one ways,
  • un adaptable,
  • in flexible,
  • stand ones ground,
  • most nonflexible,
  • non flexible,
  • un-adaptable,
  • more unadaptable,
  • set in one ways,
  • in-flexible,
  • set one's ways,
  • taut,
  • more immalleable,
  • more starched,
  • set ones ways,
  • more nonflexible,
  • set in ways,
  • set in ones ways,
  • stand ground.
  •invariable (adjective)
  • un-varying,
  • un-diversified,
  • un relieved,
  • in-variable,
  • un-relieved,
  • more unmodifiable,
  • most unmodifiable,
  • unmodifiable,
  • un-failing,
  • un varying,
  • un modifiable,
  • in variable,
  • un-modifiable,
  • un wavering,
  • un-wavering,
  • un failing,
  • un diversified,
  • most undiversified,
  • more undiversified.
  •iron (adjective)
  • most ferrous,
  • more ferrous,
  • most ferric,
  • more ferric,
  • in-sensible,
  • in sensible,
  • steelest.
  •just (adjective)
  • nondiscriminatory,
  • condign,
  • uncolored,
  • non-discriminatory,
  • rightful,
  • ethical,
  • non-partisan.
  •mossbacked (adjective)
  • ultra conservative.
  •no-nonsense (adjective)
  • nononsense,
  • no nonsense.
  •obdurate (adjective)
  • un-emotional,
  • more hard hearted,
  • more bullhead,
  • un-cooperative,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • most hard hearted,
  • un cooperative,
  • un impressible,
  • thickskinned,
  • most unimpressible,
  • hard boiled,
  • un compassionate,
  • un emotional,
  • thick skinned,
  • hard hearted,
  • un-compassionate,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • tough nut crack,
  • most bullhead,
  • un-impressible,
  • more unimpressible.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • adamant,
  • stubborn,
  • pertinacious,
  • resolute,
  • bigoted,
  • contrary,
  • bull-headed,
  • tenacious,
  • Pig-headed,
  • bovine,
  • brass-bound,
  • mulish.
  •ossified (adjective)
  • more fossilized,
  • fossilized,
  • most fossilized.
  •passionless (adjective)
  • most ardorless,
  • un responsive,
  • un-responsive,
  • more ardorless.
  •precise (adjective)
  • clear cut,
  • Stickling.
  •prim (adjective)
  • wellgroomed,
  • un cluttered,
  • more uncluttered,
  • most blue-nose,
  • goodygoody,
  • more bluenose,
  • cleanliest,
  • most blue nose,
  • more spic and span,
  • most spic and span,
  • most uncluttered,
  • well groomed,
  • most bluenose,
  • cleanlier,
  • goody goody,
  • over modest,
  • blue nose,
  • most overmodest,
  • more overmodest,
  • un-cluttered,
  • more spic-and-span,
  • most spic-and-span,
  • more blue nose,
  • more blue-nose.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • overnice,
  • most overnice,
  • more simpering,
  • most overexact,
  • prudish,
  • more overexact,
  • over-exact,
  • most simpering,
  • over exact,
  • overexact,
  • over nice,
  • more overnice.
  •reactionary (adjective)
  • old-line,
  • regressive,
  • old line,
  • oldline,
  • standpat,
  • obscurantist,
  • mossbacked,
  • counter-revolutionary,
  • counterrevolutionary.
  •regimented (adjective)
  • governed.
  •relentless (adjective)
  • un-forgiving,
  • unforgiving,
  • in-human,
  • un-stoppable,
  • more hangtough,
  • hangtough,
  • most undeviating,
  • stop nothing,
  • more hang-tough,
  • un deviating,
  • in human,
  • most unstoppable,
  • un flinching,
  • unstoppable,
  • most hang-tough,
  • stop at nothing,
  • most hang tough,
  • un-flinching,
  • un forgiving,
  • un stoppable,
  • un-deviating,
  • most hangtough,
  • more hang tough,
  • more unstoppable,
  • more undeviating.
  •religious (adjective)
  • un-swerving,
  • un swerving.
  •resolute (adjective)
  • single-minded.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • most ironhanded,
  • more ironhanded,
  • un-permissive,
  • most unpermissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • in-clement,
  • more unpermissive,
  • un permissive,
  • in clement.
  •sectarian (adjective)
  • cliquish,
  • factional,
  • non-conformist.
  •set (adjective)
  • well set,
  • more positioned,
  • more agreed,
  • most wellset,
  • more concluded,
  • pre-arranged,
  • most stipulated,
  • most prearranged,
  • most concluded,
  • more well-set,
  • more prearranged,
  • more situate,
  • pre arranged,
  • wellset,
  • re-solved,
  • most arranged,
  • hard and fast,
  • hard fast,
  • pre determined,
  • most positioned,
  • most resolved,
  • most sited,
  • more wellset,
  • in tent,
  • most well-set,
  • un flappable,
  • more arranged,
  • Sited,
  • most agreed,
  • more resolved,
  • most well set,
  • more stipulated,
  • more sited,
  • more well set,
  • most situate,
  • pre-determined.
  •severe (adjective)
  • keen,
  • acute,
  • disciplined,
  • iron-handed,
  • tart,
  • dour,
  • piquant,
  • draconian,
  • gruff,
  • demanding,
  • ascetic,
  • meticulous,
  • spartan,
  • chilly,
  • stark,
  • severe,
  • frosty,
  • grim,
  • sharp,
  • cutting,
  • dry,
  • basic,
  • raw,
  • fundamental,
  • stern,
  • astringent,
  • brusque,
  • curt,
  • caustic,
  • intense,
  • cool,
  • oppressive,
  • bleak,
  • short,
  • correct,
  • stringent,
  • acerbic,
  • imperial,
  • spare,
  • unsmiling,
  • brisk,
  • icy,
  • lean,
  • abrupt,
  • censorious,
  • crisp,
  • acrimonious,
  • blunt,
  • critical.
  •single-minded (adjective)
  • singleminded,
  • Undesigning.
  •starchy (adjective)
  • re-served,
  • re served.
  •static (adjective)
  • more stabile,
  • stabile,
  • most stalled,
  • most stabile,
  • more format,
  • un fluctuating,
  • most unfluctuating,
  • more deadlocked,
  • most gridlocked,
  • most deadlocked,
  • un-fluctuating,
  • in-active,
  • standing still,
  • more unfluctuating,
  • more gridlocked,
  • more stalled,
  • most format.
  •steadfast (adjective)
  • un-qualified,
  • un-faltering,
  • most never-failing,
  • steadfast,
  • in tense,
  • un-questioning,
  • in tenser,
  • un questioning,
  • true-blue,
  • most neverfailing,
  • in-tensest,
  • more neverfailing,
  • more never failing,
  • un qualified,
  • liege,
  • more never-failing,
  • trueblue,
  • in-tense,
  • un faltering,
  • most never failing,
  • in-tenser,
  • neverfailing,
  • never failing.
  •stern (adjective)
  • most mortified,
  • hardline,
  • hardshell,
  • more mortified.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • more unflexible,
  • creakiest,
  • more chilled,
  • be-numbed,
  • un suppler,
  • stiff as board,
  • most annealed,
  • more contracted,
  • un-graceful,
  • un-suppler,
  • unsupple,
  • most contracted,
  • more rheumatic,
  • un flexible,
  • most buckram,
  • un-supplest,
  • more numbed,
  • un supplest,
  • un supple,
  • more thickened,
  • more cemented,
  • most unflexible,
  • unsuppler,
  • most rheumatic,
  • un-flexible,
  • most cemented,
  • most thickened,
  • most chilled,
  • more arthritic,
  • un-supple,
  • more buckram,
  • be numbed,
  • most arthritic,
  • most numbed,
  • unsupplest,
  • un graceful,
  • more annealed.
  •stiff, strict, severe (adjective)
  • hard-line,
  • exact,
  • chiseled,
  • bullheaded,
  • determined,
  • definite.
  •strait-laced (adjective)
  • old maidish,
  • strait laced.
  •strict (adjective)
  • most iron-fisted,
  • more ironfisted,
  • most iron fisted,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • more iron fisted,
  • iron fisted,
  • most ironfisted.
  •stubborn (adjective)
  • most cussed,
  • more self willed,
  • most selfwilled,
  • most self willed,
  • more selfwilled,
  • self willed,
  • un manageable,
  • in-subordinate,
  • most self-willed,
  • more cussed,
  • un-manageable,
  • in subordinate,
  • selfwilled,
  • more self-willed.
  •tight (adjective)
  • dense,
  • secure,
  • snug,
  • skintight,
  • close-fitting.
  •tough (adjective)
  • most cohesive,
  • more molded,
  • most withstanding,
  • most molded,
  • more withstanding,
  • un breakable,
  • with standing,
  • in-digestible,
  • most steeled,
  • more cohesive,
  • with-standing,
  • in digestible,
  • un-breakable,
  • more steeled.
  •unalterable (adjective)
  • un-alterable,
  • un alterable.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un-bendable,
  • un bendable.
  •unchanging (adjective)
  • un-fading,
  • un-changed,
  • un-changing,
  • un changing,
  • most unfading,
  • un fading,
  • more unfading,
  • un changed.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un-compliant,
  • un compliant.
  •uncompromising (adjective)
  • most brick-wall,
  • more brickwall,
  • un-compromising,
  • most brickwall,
  • brickwall,
  • more brick-wall,
  • most brick wall,
  • un compromising,
  • more brick wall.
  •undivided (adjective)
  • more undistracted,
  • de liberate,
  • un divided,
  • un distracted,
  • more continued,
  • un-distracted,
  • un-broken,
  • lock stock barrel,
  • un cut,
  • most undistracted,
  • un-divided,
  • de-liberate,
  • un-cut,
  • most unbroken,
  • more unbroken,
  • most continued,
  • un broken.
  •uniform (adjective)
  • of a piece,
  • well-balanced,
  • well-proportioned.
  •unmitigated (adjective)
  • most unmixed,
  • un-diluted,
  • un-mixed,
  • un mitigated,
  • out-right,
  • out righter,
  • most unalleviated,
  • un diluted,
  • un alleviated,
  • out-righter,
  • un-abridged,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un abated,
  • out rightest,
  • most unabated,
  • more unmixed,
  • un abridged,
  • un mixed,
  • un-alleviated,
  • more unalleviated,
  • out right,
  • un adulterated,
  • un-abated,
  • un-mitigated,
  • straightout,
  • more unabated.
  •unmovable (adjective)
  • un-movable,
  • un movable.
  •unresponsive (adjective)
  • frigid.
  •unyielding (adjective)
  • un-yielding,
  • un yielding.
  •veridical (adjective)
  • veridical.
  •wooden (adjective)
  • unhandier,
  • un gainlier,
  • in-elegant,
  • un gainly,
  • un handier,
  • un gainliest,
  • un-handier,
  • heavy handed,
  • un-handy,
  • un handy,
  • Unhandy,
  • in elegant,
  • un-gainly,
  • unhandiest,
  • un handiest,
  • heavyhanded.

• n.

  •
  • whatever happens,
  • for good.
  •
  • opinionated.
  •
  • rooted/glued/frozen to the spot,
  • resist.
  •fixed (noun)
  • fixed.
  •intolerant (noun)
  • intolerant.
  •nonmoving (noun)
  • nonmoving.
  •rigid (noun)
  • unbending,
  • semirigid,
  • unmoving.
  •stiff (noun)
  • unbreakable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • timeless,
  • invincible,
  • small town,
  • suburban,
  • ironclad,
  • settled,
  • closed,
  • finally,
  • bloody-minded,
  • irrevocable,
  • imperishable,
  • stiffly,
  • irremediable,
  • intractable,
  • neoconservative,
  • even,
  • indelible,
  • constant,
  • incurable,
  • willful,
  • unadventurous,
  • unchallengeable,
  • irreversible,
  • meat and potatoes,
  • small-minded,
  • rock-solid,
  • adamantine,
  • impregnable,
  • blinkered,
  • long-term,
  • entrenched,
  • unvarying,
  • cussed,
  • final,
  • unreconstructed,
  • parochial,
  • stodgy,
  • dyed-in-the-wool,
  • nonnegotiable,
  • headstrong,
  • catatonic,
  • unchanged,
  • ingrained,
  • abiding,
  • rock-hard,
  • stuffy,
  • narrow-minded,
  • pigheaded,
  • Hard-headed,
  • irredeemable,
  • changeless,
  • bigot.
  •
  • intransigent,
  • immutable,
  • righteous,
  • mired,
  • implacable,
  • solidity,
  • stunned,
  • conventional,
  • packed,
  • die-hard,
  • unchangeable,
  • accurate,
  • stuck,
  • impenetrable.
  •
  • remorseless,
  • conservative,
  • narrow,
  • paralyzed.
  •
  • stable.
  •
  • catch.
  •authoritarian
  • prescriptive.
  •bony
  • osseous.

Paraphrases for Rigid:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    uncompromising, strictly, stationary, stark, rigour, mandatory.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    strict, rigorous, stringent, stiff, tight, tough, ossified, harsh, unyielding, severe, intransigent, restrictive, stiffness, hardline, solid, unwieldy, strong, flexible, prescriptive, fixed, draconian, firm, entrenched, vigorous, static, immutable, rigourous, stern, robust, exacting, scrupulous, strenuous, austere, narrow, grim, uptight, hard-line, stereotypical, stubborn, drastic, sticky, disciplined.

Antonyms for Rigid:

• adj.

  • all
    nonrigid.
  • stiff, strict, severe
    unreliable, soft, irresolute, limber, bending, imprecise, unfixed, pliable, indefinite, pliant, tolerant, yielding, inexact, broken, flexible.
  • Other antonyms:
    porous, agreeable, kindly, workable, undemanding, lenient, semisoft, loosened, negligent, kind, airy, responsive, sweet, easy, tender, sloppy, mild, neglectful, slovenly, indulgent, merciful, bendable, slipshod, moving, thin, amenable, complaisant, hanging, compliant, permeable, flexile, scattered, bland, softhearted, forbearing, tractable, acquiescent, patient, spoiling, willing, clement, pampering, remiss, accepting, compromising, genial, affable, charitable, gentle.

Homophones for Rigid:

• Rasht, roost, rusted, rigout, rough cut, requisite, rosette, react, raised, reach out, ragged, right-eyed, resist, rough out, reject, rugged, rock-steady, reseat, Resht, rogue state, restitute, rigidity, residue, rickety, rau-sed, ricotta, racist, rest day, recite, rusty, ragout, rough-cut, resuscitated, rested, racquet, risotto, reseda, ragweed, rachet, roseate, reseed, rheostat, rushed, requiescat, rose-cheeked, regatta, rye ergot, Rico Act, reset, rag day, rejected, rigged, roast, resuscitate, rosidae, reshoot, regicide, ricochet, razed, rouged, rasta, rest, request, roquette, recto, roasted, rush out, rare-roasted, roget, resect, rajidae, rig out, recast, rossetti, requite, right away, restate, resid, rocket, recode, rhizoid, right, rosewood, recede, rosy-cheeked, rescued, rosita, requested, recessed, rockweed, racket, roughcast, rackety, richweed, rushdie, roughshod, rust, reside, rectitude, res gestae, russet.