Inflexible
adjective
Unable to change or adapt.
He was inflexible in his decision, not ready to listen to any suggestion.
adjective
Unable to bend or be forced out of shape.
The inflexible plastic pipe couldn't be bent around the corner.
adjective
Strict and unbending.
The inflexible rules of the school left no room for creativity and fun.
adjective
Unable to change or adapt.
He was inflexible in his decision, not ready to listen to any suggestion.
adjective
Unable to bend or be forced out of shape.
The inflexible plastic pipe couldn't be bent around the corner.
adjective
Strict and unbending.
The inflexible rules of the school left no room for creativity and fun.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Uncompromising Stance
Describes someone who will not alter their opinion or course of action under any circumstances.
Despite the protest, the leader remained inflexible on the new policy.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tone
Often carries a negative tone, suggesting stubbornness and an unwillingness to consider others' views.
Her inflexible attitude caused a lot of frustration in the team.
Pro Tip 1/2Uncompromising Stance
Describes someone who will not alter their opinion or course of action under any circumstances.
Despite the protest, the leader remained inflexible on the new policy.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tone
Often carries a negative tone, suggesting stubbornness and an unwillingness to consider others' views.
Her inflexible attitude caused a lot of frustration in the team.
Pro Tip 1/2Uncompromising Stance
Describes someone who will not alter their opinion or course of action under any circumstances.
Despite the protest, the leader remained inflexible on the new policy.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Tone
Often carries a negative tone, suggesting stubbornness and an unwillingness to consider others' views.
Her inflexible attitude caused a lot of frustration in the team.
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Clay Shirky: How the...
not for more arguments, but for better arguments, I'd pick the open-source programmers. Programming is a three-way relationship between a programmer, some source code, and the computer it's meant to run on, but computers are such famously inflexible interpreters of instructions
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My immigration story -...
she opened a computer store then studied to be a beautician and opened another business and the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition angry and inflexible and troubled children caught between two worlds brands and sponsors were sought
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The rise of human-compute...
Internet his vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions in controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs note that word cooperate Lickliter encourages us to take a toaster and make it data from
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The deadly legacy of...
due to his inflexible prosthetic legs. Ten years ago, I had no clue what a cluster bomb was, nor its horrifying implications. I learned that this indiscriminate weapon was used in so many parts of the world and continues to kill on a regular basis,
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Tan Le: My immigration...
She opened a computer store, then studied to be a beautician and opened another business. And the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition, angry and inflexible, and troubled children caught between two worlds.
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Shyam Sankar: The rise...
His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. Note that word "cooperate." Licklider encourages us not to take a toaster
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How electromagnetic...
acquisition unit and because they're hardwired they are sometimes very expensive they're time consuming to put together and they're quite inflexible but they're also susceptible to cable and connector issues so wireless sensor
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The secret weapon that...
So in the bird, air passes through the lung, but the lung does not expand or contract. The lung is immobilized, it has the texture of a dense sponge and it's inflexible and locked into place on the top and sides by the ribcage
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On reading the Koran -...
is at least in mind that are not fundamentally inflexible some of these verses are definite in meaning it says and others are ambiguous the perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities trying to create the score by pinning
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Lesley Hazleton: A...
forgiveness is supreme -- and so, essentially, better if you don't. This was perhaps the biggest surprise -- how flexible the Koran is, at least in minds that are not fundamentally inflexible.
Video examples
Clay Shirky: How the...
not for more arguments, but for better arguments, I'd pick the open-source programmers. Programming is a three-way relationship between a programmer, some source code, and the computer it's meant to run on, but computers are such famously inflexible interpreters of instructions
Video examples
My immigration story -...
she opened a computer store then studied to be a beautician and opened another business and the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition angry and inflexible and troubled children caught between two worlds brands and sponsors were sought
Video examples
The rise of human-compute...
Internet his vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions in controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs note that word cooperate Lickliter encourages us to take a toaster and make it data from
Video examples
The deadly legacy of...
due to his inflexible prosthetic legs. Ten years ago, I had no clue what a cluster bomb was, nor its horrifying implications. I learned that this indiscriminate weapon was used in so many parts of the world and continues to kill on a regular basis,
Video examples
Tan Le: My immigration...
She opened a computer store, then studied to be a beautician and opened another business. And the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition, angry and inflexible, and troubled children caught between two worlds.
Video examples
Shyam Sankar: The rise...
His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. Note that word "cooperate." Licklider encourages us not to take a toaster
Video examples
How electromagnetic...
acquisition unit and because they're hardwired they are sometimes very expensive they're time consuming to put together and they're quite inflexible but they're also susceptible to cable and connector issues so wireless sensor
Video examples
The secret weapon that...
So in the bird, air passes through the lung, but the lung does not expand or contract. The lung is immobilized, it has the texture of a dense sponge and it's inflexible and locked into place on the top and sides by the ribcage
Video examples
On reading the Koran -...
is at least in mind that are not fundamentally inflexible some of these verses are definite in meaning it says and others are ambiguous the perverse at heart will seek out the ambiguities trying to create the score by pinning
Video examples
Lesley Hazleton: A...
forgiveness is supreme -- and so, essentially, better if you don't. This was perhaps the biggest surprise -- how flexible the Koran is, at least in minds that are not fundamentally inflexible.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
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Huston Smith
American Theologian
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
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Andrew Jackson
American President
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
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Angela Carter
English Novelist
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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Suzanne Fields
American Journalist
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
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Brett Kavanaugh
American Judge
I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.
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Tara Stiles
American Model
If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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James Beattie
Scottish Poet
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
Quote examples
Huston Smith
American Theologian
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
Quote examples
Andrew Jackson
American President
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Quote examples
Angela Carter
English Novelist
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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Suzanne Fields
American Journalist
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
Quote examples
Brett Kavanaugh
American Judge
I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.
Quote examples
Tara Stiles
American Model
If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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James Beattie
Scottish Poet
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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