inflexible

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  1. adjective Not easily bent; stiff or rigid.
  2. adjective Incapable of being changed; unalterable.
  3. adjective Unyielding in purpose, principle, or temper; immovable.

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  • Barack told me that he felt that Jewish community was too inflexible, and that was why the situation in the Mideast could not be resolved. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
  • Mullajanov says efforts to deal with the crisis are hindered by the inflexible, authoritarian nature of central Asia's five states - Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • He was a very smart guy - inflexible, judgmental, strange, but smart. —  California Literary Review
  • Existing management methods and conventional wisdom are a hard barrier to 2.0 strategy and transformation. before existing management methods seem outdated, inflexible, and ineffective. —  Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
  • Benioff, quite opportunistically, has been hammering the old model as expensive, inflexible, and outdated, and wouldn't his world be wonderful if his three big competitors were staying rooted in the past and limiting their customers to nothing but outdated models? —  InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
 

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  1. = French inflexible = Spanish inflexible = Portuguese inflexivel = Italian inflessibile, from Latin inflexibilis, that cannot be bent, from in- privative + flexibilis, that can be bent: see flexible.
 

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/ɪnˈflɛksɪbl/
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