inflexibility

inflexible | American Dictionary

inflexible
adjective
us/ɪnˈflek·sə·bəl/

inflexibleadjective (NOT CHANGING)

fixed and unable or unwilling to change:
Some officials think the law is too harsh and inflexible, and they argue it should be changed.

inflexibleadjective (STIFF)

[ not gradable ]
(of a substance) stiff and hard, and not able to be bent:
an inflexible material

inflexible | Business English

inflexible
adjective
uk /ɪnˈfleksəbl/us
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.

Examples of inflexible

inflexible
A low precision irrigation practice is inflexible and does not allow the farmer to adjust water applications in response to changing conditions.
Although these methods have good performance in particular domains for extracting particular relations, they are limited and inflexible.
The natural parameters - ice, shoals, climatic conditions etc - are, with certain modifications, basically inflexible.
Three years later the tactic could to an extent be repeated in the face of a much more inflexible attitude from the government.
At the same time he symbolised the inflexible immigration restrictions imposed by the victorious powers.
The problem with this tenure regime was that it was inflexible, while its paternalism fostered a resentful dependency.
The laws governing foreign investment were strict and inflexible, reflecting the government's residual ideological hostility.
But this does not mean that behavior is completely inflexible, and that the "is" dictates the norms.
A halving of substitution elasticities implies an economy that in an international context is rather inflexible, however.
There was a common perception, based either on past experience or on the experiences of acquaintances, that statutory help was heavily restricted and inflexible.
Economists have long promoted control systems as cost-effective alternatives to technological restrictions and other forms of inflexible command-andcontrol environmental regulations.
This policy instrument is more likely to lead to cost-effective outcomes than alternative approaches, most notably inflexible emission quotas.
If the child views the parents as completely inflexible, for example, this appraisal may rule out a variety of active strategies.
The mask is conceived as inflexible, inhibiting participation in positive elements of postmodernity as it becomes increasingly difficult to see a youthful self behind it.
To speak in a commanding or inflexible way implies that the listener is of lower status.
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