Rigid vs Rigorous - What's the difference?
rigid | rigorous |
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
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 rigid and rigorous
is that rigid is stiff, rather than flexible 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.rigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
Synonyms
* unbending, inflexibleAntonyms
* flexible * moving * compromisingDerived terms
* rigidity * rigidly * rigidnessReferences
* *rigorous
English
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.}}