INFLEXIBLE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Inflexible

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnflˈɛksəbəl/ Listen

Inflexible

adjective

Incapable of change.

Not making concessions. Synonyms: sturdy, uncompromising. "Uncompromising honesty"

Resistant to being bent. "An inflexible knife blade"

Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances. Synonyms: rigid, unbending. "An inflexible law" , "An unbending will to dominate"

See more definitions of Inflexible...

See images of 'Inflexible'

Antonyms of 'Inflexible'

Etymology of 'Inflexible'

Related search:

inflexibleness

Share |

"Inflexible" Quotes from Famous Books

... evinced by her unhesitating devotion of largely increased military and naval forces to the task, there is much reason to believe that the insurgents have gained in point of numbers and character and resources and are none the less inflexible in their resolve not to succumb without practically securing the great objects for which they took up arms. If Spain has not yet reestablished her authority, neither have the insurgents yet made good their title, to be regarded as an independent state. Indeed, as the ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

... unfortunate nobles. If their lives could not be spared, he prayed him at any rate to grant delay. With tears and earnest supplications the prelate endeavored to avert or to postpone the doom which had been pronounced. It was in vain. The sentence, inflexible as destiny, had been long before ordained. Its execution had been but hastened by the temporary triumph of rebellion in Friesland. Alva told the Bishop roughly that he had not been summoned to give advice. Delay or pardon was alike impossible. He was to act ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... passes and an overbid by the right-hand adversary, the dealer is frequently placed in a doubtful position as to whether he should advance his own bid. Some authorities contend that with less than six tricks he should wait for his partner, and while no inflexible rule can be made to cover all such cases, the follower of this proposition has probably adopted the ...

— Auction of To-day • Milton C. Work

... strangers alike to be wary and drink with moderation. And yet if any creature had been guileless enough to intimate that his absorbing nine gallons of "straight" whiskey during our voyage was any fraction short of rigid or inflexible abstemiousness, in that self-same moment the old man would have spun him to the uttermost parts of the earth in the whirlwind of his wrath. Mind, I am not saying his whisky ever affected his head or his legs, for it did not, in even the ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... with her eyes rather wide and her eyebrows raised as though she mutely confided to it her infinite astonishment. This was the last thing she had expected. She would have to go to some hotel. Can a woman stay alone at an hotel? Her heart sank. Inflexible forces seemed to be pointing her back to home—and Sir Isaac. He would be a very triumphant Sir Isaac, and she'd not have much heart left in her.... "I won't go back," she whispered to herself. "Whatever ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

More quotes...