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Rigid vs Durable - What's the difference?

rigid | durable |

As adjectives the difference between rigid and durable

is that rigid is rigid while durable is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

As a noun durable is

(economics) a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.

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

    Related terms

    * rigor * rigour

    References

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    durable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

    • Synonyms

    * permanent

    Antonyms

    * weak * vulnerable * transitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * nondurable ----