0 (especially of opinions and rules) fixed and unable or unwilling to change:
2 (of a substance) stiff and hard, and not able to be bent:
an inflexible material
3 unable or unwilling to change as conditions or situations change:
He called the European Union model "too bureaucratic and inflexible."
Nurses were frustrated by inflexible working arrangements.
A low precision irrigation practice is inflexible and does not allow the farmer to adjust water applications in response to changing conditions.
Although these methods have good performance in particular domains for extracting particular relations, they are limited and inflexible.
The natural parameters - ice, shoals, climatic conditions etc - are, with certain modifications, basically inflexible.
Three years later the tactic could to an extent be repeated in the face of a much more inflexible attitude from the government.
At the same time he symbolised the inflexible immigration restrictions imposed by the victorious powers.
The problem with this tenure regime was that it was inflexible, while its paternalism fostered a resentful dependency.
The laws governing foreign investment were strict and inflexible, reflecting the government's residual ideological hostility.
But this does not mean that behavior is completely inflexible, and that the "is" dictates the norms.
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(尤指意見和規則)不可改變的,不願變更的…
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(尤指意见和规则)不可改变的,不愿变更的…
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inflexible, rígido…
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inflexível…
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değiştirilemez, eğilmez, bükülmez…
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inflexible, rigide…
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nepoddajný, neohebný…
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ubøjelig, urokkelig, stiv…
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