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Definitions: Inflexibility |
InflexibilityNoun1. A lack of physical flexibility. 2. The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inflexibility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Synonyms: InflexibilitySynonyms: inflexibleness (n), rigidity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: flexibility (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hardness | Noun: hardness. Adjective: rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity. |
Obstinacy | Noun: obstinateness; Adjective: obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness; perseverance; a; immovability; old school; inflexibility; (hardness); obduracy, obduration; dogged resolution; resolution; ruling passion; blind side. |
Straightness | Straightness, rectilinearity, directness; inflexibility; (stiffness); straight line, right line, direct line; short cut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inflexibility |
| English words defined with "inflexibility": flinty ♦ granitic ♦ unyielding. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was objection on one side and inflexibility on the other. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Zimbabwe | The meeting failed to find a basis for agreement because of Smith's inflexibility and the inability of the black leaders to form a common political front. (references) |
Korea | The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea has identified the principal tax issues affecting U.S. companies as follows: the need for comprehensive revision of Korea's Corporation Tax Law to foster greater certainty in business planning and economic efficiency; the lack of a tax regime for non-corporate entities such as partnerships and trust; inadequate coordination between national and local taxes; inflexibility of Korea's tax penalty system and short time limits on the filing of amended tax returns; the tax treatment of stock options; donation expense rules; misclassification of some sales-related expenses as entertainment expenses; and increased tax burden on dependent tuition expenses for expatriate employees. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inflexibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inflexibility" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "inflexibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtagësi, papërkulshmëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عناد (inexorability, intransigence, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, refractory, stiffness, stoutness, stubbornness, tenacity, waywardness, wilfulness), عدم إنثناء, صلابة (callosity, hardihood, hardness, hards, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неумолимост (implacability, inexorability), неогъваемост, непреклонност (austerity, implacability, rigidity, rigor, rigour), липса на гъвкавост (inelasticity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不可弯曲. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neohebnost (rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کج نشدگی , سفتی (Duress, Rigidity, Solidity, Tenacity, Tension), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence), انحناء ناپذیری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taipumattomuus, järkähtämättömyys (firmness, immovableness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inflexibilité, rigidité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unbeugsamkeit (rigidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακαμψία (rigidity, rigor, rigour, stiffening, stiffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי 'מישות, וקשות (coarseness, dourness, hardness, intransigence, pedantry, rigidity, roughness, severity, starch, stiffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hajlíthatatlanság (relentlessness, sternness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inflessibilit (rigidity, ruggedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不'"不屈 (indomitableness, tenacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふとうふくつ (indomitableness, tenacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경직성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | starkid, reenid (doggedness, rigidity, starkness, stiffness, toughness, viscosity, wiriness, wiriness of person), neulhoobid (formality, intractability, rigidity, stiffness), do-lhoobaght (inadaptability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inflexibilityay flexivo (inflective, inflexive, inflict). (various references) inflexibilitate (immutability, unyieldingness), rigiditate (buckram, rigidity, stiffness), fermitate (backbone, consistence, consistency, decision, determination, firmness, fixedness, fixity, resoluteness, resolution, solidity, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, sturdiness). (various references) негибкость (inelasticity), непреклонность (adamancy). (various references) nesavitljivost. (various references) inflexibilidad (inelasticity, obduracy, rigidity, toughness). (various references) oböjlighet. (various references) kararlılık (ballast, decision, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, equipoise, fixity, flatness, immovability, insistence, resoluteness, resolution, singleness, singleness of purpose, stability, stableness, steadiness, stoutness, strenght of purpose), eğilmezlik. (various references) негнучкість (stickiness), непохитність (immovability, inviolability). (various references) tính không uốn được, tính không lay chuyển, tính không bẻ cong được. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inflexibility" (pronounced i'nfle'ksubi"lutē) |
| 12 | -f l e' k s u b i" l u t ē | flexibility. |
| 8 | -s u b i" l u t ē | accessibility, admissibility, comprehensibility, disability, enforceability, impossibility, inaccessibility, invincibility, irresponsibility, miscibility, possibility, responsibility, sensibility. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, adaptability, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, durability, electability, eligibility, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, gullibility, inability, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, instability, invisibility, invulnerability, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-i-i-i-l-l-n-t-x-y" | |
-2 letters: flexibility. | |
-3 letters: inflexibly. | |
-5 letters: felinity, finitely, flexibly, flintily, tefillin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 6C 65 78 69 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. .-.. . -..- .. -... .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01101100 01100101 01111000 01101001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f l e x i b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 006C 0065 0078 0069 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807278719075687578758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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