rigide

adjective

Syllable Decomposition

rigide

borrowed from Latin rigidus ('stiff', 'hard', 'firm', 'consistent', 'stiff with cold', 'straight', 'erect', 'tense', 'motionless', 'inflexible'), related to rigor ('rigor'); rigid is a scholarly doublet of raide, roide (see raide and roide).

Definitions

Antonyms

flexiblesoupleamène

Plural

rigides

Translations

  • germangerman:spröde
  • englishenglish:stiff
  • chinesechinese:刻板的
  • koreankorean:예문
  • danishdanish:stiv
  • spanishspanish:rigido
  • finnishfinnish:kankea
  • italianitalian:rigido
  • dutchdutch:stug
  • portugueseportuguese:teso
  • swedishswedish:styv

See also

semirigide (adj.) semi-rigide (adj.) rigides (adj.) rigidité (cn.)