designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

incapable of or resistant to bending; a rigid strip of metal; a table made of rigid plastic; a palace guardsman stiff as a poker; stiff hair; a stiff neck

[ Syn: stiff ]

incapable of compromise or flexibility

[ Syn: strict ]

incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; a rigid disciplinarian; an inflexible law; an unbending will to dominate

[ Syn: inflexible , unbending ]

fixed and unmoving; with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare; his bearded face already has a set hollow look- Connor Cruise OBrien; a face rigid with pain

[ Syn: fixed , set ]