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# inflexible

adjective

«inflexible» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Inexible things cannot bend: an inflexible rod is stiff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#m1)
2. Inflexible people will not change their mind or give way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#m2)

### In the lessons

a stubborn ruler or a rule that will not change in a tale

### Examples

- The judge was inflexible and would not bend the rules. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x1)
- The metal bar is inflexible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x2)
- My teacher's rule is inflexible: no phones in class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x3)
- The princess remained inflexible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «inflexible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«inflexible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/inflexible.html) on Mova free.