rigid
/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
adj
adj
noun
An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
noun
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Example Sentences
- "A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys."
- "Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand."
- "The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der. Proto-Italic *rigēō Latin rigeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rigidusder. Middle English rigide English rigid From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
- British English: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
Inflected Forms
rigider (comparative)
more rigid (comparative)
rigidest (superlative)
most rigid (superlative)
rigids (plural)