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: --
Nurses were frustrated by inflexible working arrangements.
He called the European Union model "too bureaucratic and inflexible."
To speak in a commanding or inflexible way implies that the listener is of lower status.
The mask is conceived as inflexible, inhibiting participation in positive elements of postmodernity as it becomes increasingly difficult to see a youthful self behind it.
If the child views the parents as completely inflexible, for example, this appraisal may rule out a variety of active strategies.
This policy instrument is more likely to lead to cost-effective outcomes than alternative approaches, most notably inflexible emission quotas.
Economists have long promoted control systems as cost-effective alternatives to technological restrictions and other forms of inflexible command-andcontrol environmental regulations.
There was a common perception, based either on past experience or on the experiences of acquaintances, that statutory help was heavily restricted and inflexible.
A halving of substitution elasticities implies an economy that in an international context is rather inflexible, however.
But this does not mean that behavior is completely inflexible, and that the "is" dictates the norms.
