Adjective

(en adjective)

Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Stiff, rather than flexible.

Fixed, rather than moving.

* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:

A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.

Rigorous and unbending.

Uncompromising.