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発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈflɛksəbl̩/

形容詞

inflexible (comparative more inflexible, superlative most inflexible)

1. Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent.

   Synonyms: stiff, rigid, firm, unyielding

2. Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits.
3. Not able to be changed or adapted to circumstances.
   • 2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58:

     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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate
• unflexible

反意語

• flexible

関連する語

• inflexibility
• inflexibleness
• inflexibly

参照

• “inflexible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “inflexible”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.