Astringent vs Rigid - What's the difference?
astringent | rigid |
Sharp, caustic, severe.
(medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
As adjectives the difference between astringent and rigid
is that astringent is sharp, caustic, severe while rigid is rigid.As a noun astringent
is a substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.astringent
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Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
* ----rigid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.