inflexible
adjectiveUnwilling or unable to change or bend.
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Clear all filtersUnwilling or unable to change or bend.
The willingness and ability to begin useful action without waiting to be directed.
Readiness to begin action
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Providing a useful lesson or clearer understanding.
Providing understanding
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A person who rises in rebellion against established authority.
An unwillingness to accept beliefs, behavior, or people different from one's own.
Refusal to accept differences
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Unwilling to accept views, behavior, or people regarded as different or objectionable.
Unwilling to accept differences
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Unwilling to compromise or change a firmly held position.
Easily annoyed or provoked.
Easily annoyed
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Open to unfamiliar ideas or ways of living rather than narrowly bound by convention.
Open to different ideas
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Unwilling or reluctant.
Skillful handling or adjustment, sometimes involving unfair or deceptive control.
Skillful handling
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Requiring little skill and traditionally assigned low status.
Excessively unwilling to spend or share money or resources.
Unwilling to consider ideas or practices beyond a limited set of familiar views.
Vague, indistinct, or not clearly developed.
A duty or commitment that a person is expected or bound to fulfill.
Duty or binding commitment
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Stubbornly unwilling to change despite reasons or persuasion.
Stubbornly resistant
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Suggesting that something unpleasant may happen.
Suggesting trouble
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Expressing opinions openly and directly.
Open in expressing views
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Extremely unwilling to spend or use resources, often excessively so.
Excessively unwilling to spend
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At the edge or less central to the main subject.
To spread throughout or be present in every part.
Deliberately contrary to what is expected or reasonable; also contrary in an unexpected way.
Deliberately contrary
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In action, excessively hasty; also very steep.
Excessively hasty
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