rigid
Stiff and impossible to bend, or very strict.
rigid in a sentence
- The tent poles were so rigid that they snapped rather than bent in the storm.
- Frozen stiff overnight, the towel on the washing line was rigid as a board and would not fold.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to rigid?
- Astiff
- Bflexible
- Csoft
- Dbendy
Show the answer
A: stiff. The other three mean the opposite of rigid.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to rigid?
- Abendy
- Bstiff
- Cfixed
- Dfirm
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A: bendy. The other three mean nearly the same as rigid.
Words that mean something similar
stiff, firm, fixed
Words that mean the opposite
bendy, flexible, soft
More words about movement & action
- roam: To wander around freely with no fixed plan.
- ruffle: To make something messy or to upset someone slightly.
- rummage: To search for something by moving things around in a messy way.
- rupture: To burst or break apart suddenly.
- salvage: To save something useful from a wreck or disaster.
- saunter: To walk in a slow and relaxed way with no hurry at all.
- scavenge: To search through leftovers or rubbish for anything useful to eat or keep.
- scour: To search every part of a place very carefully.
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test