Definition of inflexible in English:

inflexible

adjective ɪnˈflɛksɪb(ə)lɪnˈflɛksəb(ə)l

1Unwilling to change or compromise.
坚定不移的；不屈不挠的
once she had made up her mind, she was inflexible
她一旦下定决心就坚定不移。
Example sentencesExamples
- And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship.
- They're too robotic and inflexible - too dependent on having a single party line to defend - the simpler, the better.
- Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances.
- Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
- It would appear that the new order of Catholicism is as equally inflexible and uncompromising, as the old order would appear to be.
- I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
- People who are more rigid and inflexible have more difficulty adapting, so you need to have lot of different kinds of skills in order to succeed?
- The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice.
- Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible.
- And realising the truth made me something my mother was not - absolutely resolute and inflexible.
- Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture.
- You can't accuse Susan Davies of being inflexible…
- When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise.
- Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages.
- Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult.
- But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn.
- It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected.
- It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions.
- People over 35 were thought to be ‘too inflexible and unwilling to learn’.
- Even in a small suburban committee, the inflexible zealot, the resourceful opportunist and the passive collaborator are never really equal in judgment or influence.
Synonyms
stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, intractable, intransigent, unbending, immovable, inexorable, unadaptable, unaccommodating
hidebound, set in one's ways, blinkered, single-minded, pig-headed, mulish
uncompromising, dogged, adamant, firm, resolute, diehard, steely, iron-willed, dyed-in-the-wool
formal refractory
1. 1.1 Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances.
  无法改变的，不变通的
  inflexible rules
  僵硬的条文。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself.
  First, the structure of the colonial revenue system - with its high and inflexible tax rates - drastically increased peasant vulnerability to drought.
  They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance.
  The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense.
  Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region.
  Proponents and opponents have intense, inflexible and uncompromising opinions about abortion based on strong moral and/or civil liberties beliefs.
  But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives.
  The contract is inflexible, whatever the circumstances.
  After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat.
  Even after dismissing the foggy notion of ‘free will,’ few cognitive thinkers consider us automata driven by inflexible genes.
  Rather than creating stress with a long list of inflexible resolutions, why not simply vow to do something - at least once every day - that you know is good for you.
  He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections.
  Around 365 practices across Scotland have signed up to the project, known as the Scottish Primary Care Collaborative, sparking fears that thousands of patients are being hit by the inflexible system.
  Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need.
  And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children.
  We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs.
  Though this will be effective in theory, the difficulty is the centralised distribution of state finances - an inflexible system that often causes funding delays.
  This week's inflexible attitudes and blinkered thinking is just the scenario you naughty Aquarians love to be outrageous and make mischief in
  The trouble is that the counterpart of high productivity is low employment because of the structure of French labour markets and the low level of consumer demand - labour markets that are even more inflexible than in Germany.
  Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics (the working age population has ceased to grow) were already in existence before the euro was launched.
  Synonyms
  unalterable, unchangeable, unvarying, unwavering, unshakeable, entrenched
  firm, fixed, set, established, hard and fast, uncompromising
  stringent, rigorous, strict, severe, inexorable, immutable
2Not able to be bent; stiff.
不能弯曲的，坚硬的
heavy inflexible armour
甲虫又厚又硬的甲壳。
Example sentencesExamples
- The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem.
- Janice was fairly stiff and inflexible, with a bad back, so the movements were geared to her level of ability.
- Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible.
- Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible.
- The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad.
- The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic.
- When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains.
- The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea.
- A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says.
- The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible.
- Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible.
Synonyms
rigid, stiff, non-flexible, unyielding, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, firm, inelastic
rare impliable, unmalleable

Derivatives

inflexibly

adverb

She is often inflexibly wrong but passionately convincing.
Example sentencesExamples
- He is also right about the sense of leaving it to the legislature to detail the specifics of citizenship entitlement rather than having it fixed inflexibly in the constitution.
- It is the consequence of a basically linguistically-orientated content delivered inflexibly and mechanistically.
- His fear, which we share, is that principles will be interpreted inflexibly, without regard to the nuances of cases, generating a gridlock of conflicting principled stands.
- Isn't it more important to save one more life than inflexibly sticking to the rules?

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inflexibilis, from in- 'not' + flexibilis 'flexible'.

Definition of inflexible in US English:

inflexible

adjectiveinˈfleksəb(ə)lɪnˈflɛksəb(ə)l

1Unwilling to change or compromise.
坚定不移的；不屈不挠的
once she had made up her mind, she was inflexible
她一旦下定决心就坚定不移。
Example sentencesExamples
- People over 35 were thought to be ‘too inflexible and unwilling to learn’.
- When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise.
- Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances.
- Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult.
- It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected.
- People who are more rigid and inflexible have more difficulty adapting, so you need to have lot of different kinds of skills in order to succeed?
- Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible.
- You can't accuse Susan Davies of being inflexible…
- The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice.
- Even in a small suburban committee, the inflexible zealot, the resourceful opportunist and the passive collaborator are never really equal in judgment or influence.
- Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture.
- And realising the truth made me something my mother was not - absolutely resolute and inflexible.
- It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions.
- And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship.
- Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages.
- Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
- They're too robotic and inflexible - too dependent on having a single party line to defend - the simpler, the better.
- But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn.
- It would appear that the new order of Catholicism is as equally inflexible and uncompromising, as the old order would appear to be.
- I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
Synonyms
stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, intractable, intransigent, unbending, immovable, inexorable, unadaptable, unaccommodating
1. 1.1 Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances.
  无法改变的，不变通的
  inflexible rules
  僵硬的条文。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Rather than creating stress with a long list of inflexible resolutions, why not simply vow to do something - at least once every day - that you know is good for you.
  Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region.
  And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children.
  They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance.
  The contract is inflexible, whatever the circumstances.
  Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics (the working age population has ceased to grow) were already in existence before the euro was launched.
  Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need.
  Proponents and opponents have intense, inflexible and uncompromising opinions about abortion based on strong moral and/or civil liberties beliefs.
  First, the structure of the colonial revenue system - with its high and inflexible tax rates - drastically increased peasant vulnerability to drought.
  The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense.
  And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself.
  But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives.
  The trouble is that the counterpart of high productivity is low employment because of the structure of French labour markets and the low level of consumer demand - labour markets that are even more inflexible than in Germany.
  We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs.
  Around 365 practices across Scotland have signed up to the project, known as the Scottish Primary Care Collaborative, sparking fears that thousands of patients are being hit by the inflexible system.
  This week's inflexible attitudes and blinkered thinking is just the scenario you naughty Aquarians love to be outrageous and make mischief in
  Though this will be effective in theory, the difficulty is the centralised distribution of state finances - an inflexible system that often causes funding delays.
  Even after dismissing the foggy notion of ‘free will,’ few cognitive thinkers consider us automata driven by inflexible genes.
  He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections.
  After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat.
  Synonyms
  unalterable, unchangeable, unvarying, unwavering, unshakeable, entrenched
2Not able to be bent; stiff.
不能弯曲的，坚硬的
the heavy inflexible armor of the beetles
甲虫又厚又硬的甲壳。
Example sentencesExamples
- When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains.
- The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad.
- Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible.
- Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible.
- Janice was fairly stiff and inflexible, with a bad back, so the movements were geared to her level of ability.
- Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible.
- The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea.
- The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic.
- A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says.
- The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible.
- The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem.
Synonyms
rigid, stiff, non-flexible, unyielding, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, firm, inelastic

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inflexibilis, from in- ‘not’ + flexibilis ‘flexible’.

词汇	inflexible
释义	Definition of inflexible in English: inflexible adjective ɪnˈflɛksɪb(ə)lɪnˈflɛksəb(ə)l 1Unwilling to change or compromise. 坚定不移的；不屈不挠的 once she had made up her mind, she was inflexible 她一旦下定决心就坚定不移。 Example sentencesExamples And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship. They're too robotic and inflexible - too dependent on having a single party line to defend - the simpler, the better. Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances. Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils. It would appear that the new order of Catholicism is as equally inflexible and uncompromising, as the old order would appear to be. I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible. People who are more rigid and inflexible have more difficulty adapting, so you need to have lot of different kinds of skills in order to succeed? The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice. Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible. And realising the truth made me something my mother was not - absolutely resolute and inflexible. Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture. You can't accuse Susan Davies of being inflexible… When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise. Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages. Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult. But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn. It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected. It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions. People over 35 were thought to be ‘too inflexible and unwilling to learn’. Even in a small suburban committee, the inflexible zealot, the resourceful opportunist and the passive collaborator are never really equal in judgment or influence. Synonyms stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, intractable, intransigent, unbending, immovable, inexorable, unadaptable, unaccommodating hidebound, set in one's ways, blinkered, single-minded, pig-headed, mulish uncompromising, dogged, adamant, firm, resolute, diehard, steely, iron-willed, dyed-in-the-wool formal refractory 1.1 Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances. 无法改变的，不变通的 inflexible rules 僵硬的条文。 Example sentencesExamples And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself. First, the structure of the colonial revenue system - with its high and inflexible tax rates - drastically increased peasant vulnerability to drought. They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance. The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense. Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region. Proponents and opponents have intense, inflexible and uncompromising opinions about abortion based on strong moral and/or civil liberties beliefs. But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives. The contract is inflexible, whatever the circumstances. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat. Even after dismissing the foggy notion of ‘free will,’ few cognitive thinkers consider us automata driven by inflexible genes. Rather than creating stress with a long list of inflexible resolutions, why not simply vow to do something - at least once every day - that you know is good for you. He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections. Around 365 practices across Scotland have signed up to the project, known as the Scottish Primary Care Collaborative, sparking fears that thousands of patients are being hit by the inflexible system. Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need. And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children. We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs. Though this will be effective in theory, the difficulty is the centralised distribution of state finances - an inflexible system that often causes funding delays. This week's inflexible attitudes and blinkered thinking is just the scenario you naughty Aquarians love to be outrageous and make mischief in The trouble is that the counterpart of high productivity is low employment because of the structure of French labour markets and the low level of consumer demand - labour markets that are even more inflexible than in Germany. Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics (the working age population has ceased to grow) were already in existence before the euro was launched. Synonyms unalterable, unchangeable, unvarying, unwavering, unshakeable, entrenched firm, fixed, set, established, hard and fast, uncompromising stringent, rigorous, strict, severe, inexorable, immutable 2Not able to be bent; stiff. 不能弯曲的，坚硬的 heavy inflexible armour 甲虫又厚又硬的甲壳。 Example sentencesExamples The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem. Janice was fairly stiff and inflexible, with a bad back, so the movements were geared to her level of ability. Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible. Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible. The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad. The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic. When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains. The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea. A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says. The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible. Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible. Synonyms rigid, stiff, non-flexible, unyielding, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, firm, inelastic rare impliable, unmalleable Derivatives inflexibly adverb She is often inflexibly wrong but passionately convincing. Example sentencesExamples He is also right about the sense of leaving it to the legislature to detail the specifics of citizenship entitlement rather than having it fixed inflexibly in the constitution. It is the consequence of a basically linguistically-orientated content delivered inflexibly and mechanistically. His fear, which we share, is that principles will be interpreted inflexibly, without regard to the nuances of cases, generating a gridlock of conflicting principled stands. Isn't it more important to save one more life than inflexibly sticking to the rules? Origin Late Middle English: from Latin inflexibilis, from in- 'not' + flexibilis 'flexible'. Definition of inflexible in US English: inflexible adjectiveinˈfleksəb(ə)lɪnˈflɛksəb(ə)l 1Unwilling to change or compromise. 坚定不移的；不屈不挠的 once she had made up her mind, she was inflexible 她一旦下定决心就坚定不移。 Example sentencesExamples People over 35 were thought to be ‘too inflexible and unwilling to learn’. When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise. Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances. Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult. It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected. People who are more rigid and inflexible have more difficulty adapting, so you need to have lot of different kinds of skills in order to succeed? Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible. You can't accuse Susan Davies of being inflexible… The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice. Even in a small suburban committee, the inflexible zealot, the resourceful opportunist and the passive collaborator are never really equal in judgment or influence. Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture. And realising the truth made me something my mother was not - absolutely resolute and inflexible. It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions. And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship. Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages. Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils. They're too robotic and inflexible - too dependent on having a single party line to defend - the simpler, the better. But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn. It would appear that the new order of Catholicism is as equally inflexible and uncompromising, as the old order would appear to be. I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible. Synonyms stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, intractable, intransigent, unbending, immovable, inexorable, unadaptable, unaccommodating 1.1 Not able to be changed or adapted to particular circumstances. 无法改变的，不变通的 inflexible rules 僵硬的条文。 Example sentencesExamples Rather than creating stress with a long list of inflexible resolutions, why not simply vow to do something - at least once every day - that you know is good for you. Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region. And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children. They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance. The contract is inflexible, whatever the circumstances. Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics (the working age population has ceased to grow) were already in existence before the euro was launched. Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need. Proponents and opponents have intense, inflexible and uncompromising opinions about abortion based on strong moral and/or civil liberties beliefs. First, the structure of the colonial revenue system - with its high and inflexible tax rates - drastically increased peasant vulnerability to drought. The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense. And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself. But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives. The trouble is that the counterpart of high productivity is low employment because of the structure of French labour markets and the low level of consumer demand - labour markets that are even more inflexible than in Germany. We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs. Around 365 practices across Scotland have signed up to the project, known as the Scottish Primary Care Collaborative, sparking fears that thousands of patients are being hit by the inflexible system. This week's inflexible attitudes and blinkered thinking is just the scenario you naughty Aquarians love to be outrageous and make mischief in Though this will be effective in theory, the difficulty is the centralised distribution of state finances - an inflexible system that often causes funding delays. Even after dismissing the foggy notion of ‘free will,’ few cognitive thinkers consider us automata driven by inflexible genes. He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat. Synonyms unalterable, unchangeable, unvarying, unwavering, unshakeable, entrenched 2Not able to be bent; stiff. 不能弯曲的，坚硬的 the heavy inflexible armor of the beetles 甲虫又厚又硬的甲壳。 Example sentencesExamples When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains. The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad. Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible. Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible. Janice was fairly stiff and inflexible, with a bad back, so the movements were geared to her level of ability. Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible. The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea. The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic. A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says. The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible. The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem. Synonyms rigid, stiff, non-flexible, unyielding, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, firm, inelastic Origin Late Middle English: from Latin inflexibilis, from in- ‘not’ + flexibilis ‘flexible’.
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