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/ɪnflˈɛksəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Inflexible adj.

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. ""Inflexibleas steel."" "A man of upright and inflexible temper... can overcome all private fear."

Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. "The nature of things is inflexible."

Synonyms: Unbending; unyielding; rigid; inexorable; pertinacious; obstinate; stubborn; unrelenting.

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Etymology of 'Inflexible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was a woman's word, instant, inflexible, desperate. With a deep breath Hare realized where the ...

— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey

... foundered, had with some others got into the long Boat, and was taken up by a Ship at Sea, and carried to the East Indies, where in a little Time he made a large Fortune; and the Pirates who took his Daughter, attempted to rob her of her Chastity; but finding her Inflexible, and determined to die rather than to submit, some of them behaved to her in a very cruel Manner; but others, who had more Honour and Generosity, became her Defenders; upon which a Quarrel arose between them, and the Captain, who was the worst of the Gang, being killed, the rest of the ...

— Goody Two-Shoes - A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Edition Of 1766 • Anonymous

... inch thick; and beneath it is a layer of fat, also an inch or more in thickness. The fins of the fore-limbs consist of bones exactly corresponding to those of the human arm, with five fingers at the extremity—every joint distinct, although completely encased in its thick inflexible skin. ...

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... beautiful from the artistic point of view, was "out of place and altogether incongruous in a group of sonnets so entirely spiritual as The House of Life," and Rossetti gave way: but upon the subject of Wordsworth in his relations to Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, he was quite inflexible to the last. ...

— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

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— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

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