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synonyms for inflexibility

  • intransigence
  • obstinacy
  • bullheadedness
  • contumacy
  • doggedness
  • grimness
  • indomitability
  • inexorability
  • inexorableness
  • inflexibleness
  • intransigency
  • mulishness
  • obduracy
  • perseverance
  • pertinacity
  • pigheadedness
  • relentlessness
  • rigidity
  • rigidness
  • adamancy
  • die-hardism
  • implacability
  • implacableness
  • incompliance
  • incompliancy
  • obdurateness
  • remorselessness
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How to use inflexibility in a sentence

However, inflexible interpretations of the First Amendment tied our hands in Charlottesville.
D.C. OFFICIALS IGNORED THE LESSONS WE LEARNED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. HERE ARE 3 THINGS LEADERS SHOULD DO TO HELP PREVENT FUTURE ATTACKSMICHAEL SIGNERJANUARY 13, 2021TIME
It is so inflexible that people marvel over some of the bending it has done so far.
THE CORONAVIRUS HAS TURNED THE NFL INTO A JOKE, AND NOBODY SHOULD BE LAUGHINGJERRY BREWERNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
They create bureaucracy with complex approval systems that remove authority from the front line, in favor of inflexible rules-based systems that are not customer-friendly.
WE NEED A G.I. BILL FOR FRONTLINE WORKERS, THE HEROES OF COVID-19MATTHEWHEIMEROCTOBER 27, 2020FORTUNE
It adds a detachable keyboard and trackpad cover to the iPad, along with an adjustable kickstand akin to the Microsoft Surface — arguably more useful than Apple’s own Magic Keyboard and its inflexible posture.
YES, YOUR IPAD CAN REPLACE YOUR DESKTOP OR LAPTOP. HERE ARE 5 THINGS TO KNOW FIRSTPATRICK LUCAS AUSTINMAY 28, 2020TIME
Deep, yet not harsh, lines were imprinted on the whole of his countenance, which indicated inflexibility and self-possession.
NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT
She must understand now the inflexibility of his character and the intensity of his devotion.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSON
From this out, his own vigour, his own extraordinary individuality and inflexibility carried him through from beginning to end.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARD
The Dauphin is an infant, you will constitute a council of regents, composed of men of inflexibility.
THE SWORD OF HONOR, VOLUMES 1 & 2EUGNE SUE
Vossius's desire to have Grotius continue in Holland was so great, that his friend's inflexibility gave him much uneasiness.
THE LIFE OF THE TRULY EMINENT AND LEARNED HUGO GROTIUSJEAN LVESQUE DE BURIGNY
The Protestants refused him their supplies, and made him alone suffer for the inflexibility of the Roman Catholics.
THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, COMPLETEFRIEDRICH SCHILLER
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WORDS RELATED TO INFLEXIBILITY

  • acerbity
  • asperity
  • astringence
  • coldness
  • exactingness
  • exactness
  • formality
  • formalness
  • gravity
  • grimness
  • hardness
  • harshness
  • inclemency
  • inflexibility
  • obduracy
  • rigidity
  • rigor
  • seriousness
  • solemnity
  • sternness
  • stiffness
  • strictness
  • stringency
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.