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say it: RIJ-uhd
rigid is an adjective meaning "incapable of or resistant to bending". It is pronounced /ˈɹɪdʒəd/ — RIJ-uhd. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
incapable of compromise or flexibility
incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances
“a rigid disciplinarian”
“an inflexible law”
“an unbending will to dominate”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rigid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.