Usually means: Unable to bend or flex.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rigid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rigid: Merriam-Webster
  3. rigid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rigid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rigid: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rigid: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rigid, rigid: Wordnik
  8. rigid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rigid: Wiktionary
  10. rigid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rigid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rigid: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rigid: Dictionary.com
  14. rigid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rigid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rigid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rigid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rigid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rigid: Rhymezone
  20. rigid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rigid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rigid: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rigid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rigid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. rigid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rigid: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rigid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rigid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rigid: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rigid: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rigid: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rigid: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Rigid: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See rigidly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Stiff, rather than flexible.
adjective:  Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
adjective:  Fixed, rather than moving.
adjective:  Rigorous and unbending.
adjective:  Uncompromising.
noun:  (aviation) 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.

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