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Rigid vs Puritan - What's the difference?

rigid | puritan |

As an adjective rigid

is rigid.

As a noun puritan is

a member of a particular protestant religious sect.

rigid

English

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.
  • Synonyms

    * unbending, inflexible

    Antonyms

    * flexible * moving * compromising

    Derived terms

    * rigidity * rigidly * rigidness

    References

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    puritan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often disapproving): a puritanical person
  • Synonyms

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex
  • Synonyms

    * puritanical * antisexualist * prude * erotophobe * genophobe