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Rigid vs Hinged - What's the difference?

rigid | hinged |

As adjectives the difference between rigid and hinged

is that rigid is stiff, rather than flexible while hinged is affixed by a hinge, as a door.

As a verb hinged is

past tense of hinge.

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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    hinged

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
  • (slang) Extremely high on drugs.
  • (of a postage stamp) Affixed with a stamp hinge

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (hinge)