INFLEXIBLE


Meaning of INFLEXIBLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

too

It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer's instruction set.

It is too inflexible , too costly, and too rigid.

They are too inflexible for that.

Unfortunately such systems have proved too hard to use for non-experts and too inflexible to support learning rather than training.

The City Force as an organization was too inflexible to oppose successfully.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Although many students adored Albers, others found him inflexible and stifling.

It is a huge, inflexible and impersonal organization.

Some of his employees find him inflexible .

The proposed law is poorly written and inflexible .

The regulations are precise and inflexible in such matters.

Union negotiators criticized the employers for being too inflexible on the issues of pay and working conditions.

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