Inflexible vs Rigorous - What's the difference?
inflexible | rigorous | 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.
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
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, title= Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Violent.
As adjectives the difference between inflexible and rigorous
is that inflexible is not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding while rigorous is manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.inflexible
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* See also * unflexibleAntonyms
* flexibleReferences
* ----rigorous
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Alternative forms
* rigourousAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}