Inflexibility
noun
The quality of not being easily changed or adjusted.
His inflexibility on matters of scheduling made it difficult to coordinate the team's work.
Often appears as...
- rigid inflexibility
- demonstrated inflexibility
noun
The quality of not willing to change an opinion or decision.
Her inflexibility on the issue created a divide in the group.
Often appears as...
- opinionated inflexibility
- positional inflexibility
noun
The condition of being physically unable to bend or to be bent.
The patient's inflexibility may be due to a muscular or skeletal issue.
Often appears as...
- muscular inflexibility
- skeletal inflexibility
noun
The quality of not being easily changed or adjusted.
His inflexibility on matters of scheduling made it difficult to coordinate the team's work.
Often appears as...
- rigid inflexibility
- demonstrated inflexibility
noun
The quality of not willing to change an opinion or decision.
Her inflexibility on the issue created a divide in the group.
Often appears as...
- opinionated inflexibility
- positional inflexibility
noun
The condition of being physically unable to bend or to be bent.
The patient's inflexibility may be due to a muscular or skeletal issue.
Often appears as...
- muscular inflexibility
- skeletal inflexibility
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Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Often used in professional settings to describe an unwillingness to adapt to new methods or proposals.
The manager's inflexibility on remote work policies frustrated the employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Usually seen as a negative trait, suggesting stubbornness and limited adaptability.
His inflexibility to compromise hindered the negotiation process.
Pro Tip 3/3Change Resistance
Implies a lack of openness to change and difficulty in adjusting one's mindset or approach.
Despite the company's falling profits, there was substantial inflexibility in adopting new strategies.
Compare with
firmimmutabilityobstinacyresistancerigiditystiffnessstubborn
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Taiye Selasi: Don't ask...
The "but" in that sentence belies the inflexibility of the units, one fixed and fictional entity bumping up against another. "I'm a local of Lagos and Berlin," suggests overlapping experiences, layers that merge together, that can't be denied or removed. You can take away my passport,
Video examples
Taiye Selasi: Don't ask...
The "but" in that sentence belies the inflexibility of the units, one fixed and fictional entity bumping up against another. "I'm a local of Lagos and Berlin," suggests overlapping experiences, layers that merge together, that can't be denied or removed. You can take away my passport,
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Quote examples
Maureen Dowd
American Journalist
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.
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Scott Derrickson
American Director
I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesian Economist
Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.
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Josh Barnett
American Mixed Martial Artist
Reduction of inflexibility means reduction of injuries. That just means being able to move a lot easier and, you know, not looking like Abe Vigoda when you get out of bed in the morning.
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Jen Sincero
American Author
At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.
Quote examples
Maureen Dowd
American Journalist
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.
Quote examples
Scott Derrickson
American Director
I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.
Quote examples
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesian Economist
Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.
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Josh Barnett
American Mixed Martial Artist
Reduction of inflexibility means reduction of injuries. That just means being able to move a lot easier and, you know, not looking like Abe Vigoda when you get out of bed in the morning.
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Jen Sincero
American Author
At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.
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