inflexible
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Synonyms
fixed, hard-and-fast, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, invariable, unalterable, unchangeable
Antonyms
alterable, changeable, elastic, flexible, mutable, variable
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Jobs increasingly require long, inflexible hours, and pay disproportionately more to people who work them. — New York Times, "How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession," 23 Aug. 2019 My dad was not the inflexible tyrant that Javed鈥檚 is in Blinded. — Keith Campbell, Dallas News, "'Blinded by the Light' captures how Bruce Springsteen reaches hungry hearts like mine," 9 Aug. 2019 Though sometimes the unions were inflexible, such traditions helped keep them safer, multiple current and former employees said. — Fortune, "Rising Profits, Rising Injuries: Koch Industries Faces a Safety Crisis at Georgia-Pacific," 8 Aug. 2019 The bullpen is similarly inflexible, with only Wander Suero and Tanner Rainey able to be optioned without being designated for assignment. — Jesse Dougherty, The Denver Post, "Nationals ace Max Scherzer to return against Rockies on Thursday," 24 July 2019 In almost every area where Mr. Trump and the United States have been inflexible or frosty, Mr. Putin has offered dialogue. — New York Times, "Turkey鈥檚 Erdogan Goes His Own Way as Distrust With U.S. Grows," 16 July 2019 In a New England Journal of Medicine editorial, a panel of experts cited examples such as inflexible thresholds on dosages, abrupt tapering and misapplication of the guidelines for people with cancer, sickle cell disease or recovering from surgery. — Jayne O'donnell, USA TODAY, "Pain patients left in anguish by doctors 'terrified' of opioid addiction, despite CDC change," 24 June 2019 So operators demand for forages like corn silage is very inflexible. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, "Real World Economics: Oil prices, war, and a bad corn crop," 23 June 2019 Once in Florida, Ms. Glusman, who has a degree in public relations, got a 9-to-5 job in the hospitality industry, doing marketing and sales, but the hours were too inflexible. — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, "The Call to Care for Aging Parents Comes Sooner Now," 6 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inflexible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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