starched

polite precise

nominal

aloof by the numbers ceremonious conventional decorous distant exact playing the game prim punctilious reserved seemly sententious stilted straight arrow stuffy unbending

customary disorderly informal normal relaxed unaffected

rigid

hard immalleable impliable inelastic nonflexible set taut unbending

bendable elastic flexible pliable pliant reasonable resilient soft willing yielding

stuffy

ceremonious conventional inflexible mannered prim reserved rigid stilted strait-laced strict

arthritic creaky rigid solid stark tense thick tight wooden

brittle buckram firm refractory rheumatic set

annealed benumbed cemented chilled congealed contracted fixed frozen graceless hardened immalleable impliable incompliant indurate inelastic jelled mechanical numbed ossified petrified resistant solidified starchy steely stiff as a board stony taut thickened unbending unflexible ungraceful unsupple unyielding

bending flexible loose pliable slack soft

indefinite supple

pliant