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Synonyms
rig·id (rĭj́ĭd)

[Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus, from rigēre, to be stiff.]

adjective 

  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

derivatives

riǵid·ly
adverb
riǵid·ness
noun