Word Meanings - OVERRIGID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Too rigid; too severe.

Related words: (words related to OVERRIGID)

• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• RIGIDULOUS
  Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
• SEVERE
  perhaps akin to Gr. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. 1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.
• RIGIDNESS
  The quality or state of being rigid.
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
• FRIGIDARIUM
  The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
• SUBRIGID
  Somewhat rigid or stiff.
• FRIGIDITY
  1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness
• FRIGIDNESS
  The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
• INFRIGIDATION
  The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. Boyle.
• OVERRIGID
  Too rigid; too severe.
• FRIGIDLY
  In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
• FRIGID
  1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate. 2. Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style;
• PERSEVERE
  To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if