inflexible

4 definitions • 6 examples

(especially of opinions and rules) fixed and unable or unwilling to change:

The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.

This type of computer is too slow and inflexible to meet many business needs.

fixed and unable or unwilling to change:

Some officials think the law is too harsh and inflexible, and they argue it should be changed.

(of a substance) stiff and hard, and not able to be bent:

an inflexible material

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.