Inflexible vs Fixed - What's the difference?
inflexible | fixed | Related terms |
Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits; obstinate; stubborn; resolute; determined.
(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
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Chemically stable.
Supplied with what one needs.
(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
As adjectives the difference between inflexible and fixed
is that inflexible is not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a verb fixed is
past tense of fix.inflexible
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* See also * unflexibleAntonyms
* flexibleReferences
* ----fixed
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(en adjective)- fixed assets
- I work fixed''' hours for a '''fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- ''He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed