Rigid vs Adaptive - What's the difference?
rigid | adaptive |
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
* {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
, passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
* {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
, passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
As adjectives the difference between rigid and adaptive
is that rigid is rigid while adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.rigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.