Difference between Fixed and Rigid

What is the difference between Fixed and Rigid?

Fixed as an adjective is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. while Rigid as an adjective is stiff, rather than flexible.

Fixed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. Stationary. Chemically stable. Supplied with what one needs.

Example sentence: Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Rigid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Stiff, rather than flexible.Fixed, rather than moving.Rigorous and unbending.Uncompromising.

Example sentence: The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

We hope you now know whether to use Fixed or Rigid in your sentence.

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