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# inflexible

«inflexible» in Mova's school dictionary: **Inexible things cannot bend: an inflexible rod is stiff** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Inexible things cannot bend: an inflexible rod is stiff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#m1)

2) Inflexible people will not change their mind or give way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x1)
- The metal bar is inflexible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x2)
- My teacher's rule is inflexible: no phones in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x3)
- The princess remained inflexible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inflexible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inflexible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.