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Inflexible

//ɪnˈflɛksəbl̩// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent.
  2. 2
    Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits.
  3. 3
    Not able to be changed or adapted to circumstances.

    "Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resistant to being bent wordnet
  2. 2
    incapable of change wordnet
  3. 3
    not making concessions wordnet
  4. 4
    incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inflexible, from Latin īnflexibilis. See also in- + flexible.

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