Adjective: rigid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | rigider |
| Superlative | rigidest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more rigid |
| Superlative | most rigid |
Sample Sentences
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A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys. [2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Penguin Books, page 5:]
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Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.
Adjectives inflected like rigid
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der.
3. Proto-Italic *rigēō
4. Latin rigeō
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
6. Proto-Italic *-iðos
7. Latin -idus
8. Latin rigidusder.
9. Middle English rigide
10. English rigid
11. From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge + -ed. See: Latin Adjectives '
rigidus'.