Dogmatic vs. Rigid — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dogmatic and Rigid
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Dogmatic
Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
Rigid
Unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible
A seat of rigid orange plastic
Dogmatic
Asserting or insisting upon ideas or principles, especially when unproven or unexamined, in an imperious or arrogant manner
"People in recovery groups can be dogmatic, asserting that the group's way is 'the way' or bashing other approaches" (Anne M. Fletcher).
Rigid
Not able to be changed or adapted
Rigid bureaucratic controls
Dogmatic
Characterized by such assertion, often with an unconsidered rejection of criticism
A dogmatic adherence to a single educational model.
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Rigid
A lorry which is not articulated.
Dogmatic
Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
Rigid
Not flexible or pliant; stiff
A rigid material.
Dogmatic
Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
Rigid
Not moving or flexing
Rigid muscles.
Dogmatic
Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
Rigid
Not changing or adjusting to different conditions or problems
A rigid thinker.
A rigid hierarchy.
Dogmatic
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
Rigid
Scrupulously or severely maintained or performed; rigorous or harsh
Rigid discipline.
Dogmatic
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; - opposed to the Empiric.
Rigid
Being an airship with a external frame made of rigid parts.
Dogmatic
Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
Rigid
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Dogmatic
Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.
Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way.
[They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient.
Rigid
Fixed, rather than moving.
Dogmatic
Characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
Rigid
Rigorous and unbending.
Dogmatic
Relating to or involving dogma;
Dogmatic writings
Rigid
Uncompromising.
Rigid
(aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
Rigid
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Rigid
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerableOf rigid spears.
Rigid
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and government.
Rigid
Incapable of or resistant to bending;
A rigid strip of metal
A table made of rigid plastic
A palace guardsman stiff as a poker
Rigid
Incapable of compromise or flexibility
Rigid
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances;
A rigid disciplinarian
An inflexible law
An unbending will to dominate
Rigid
Fixed and unmoving;
With eyes set in a fixed glassy stare
His bearded face already has a set hollow look
A face rigid with pain
Rigid
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
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