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The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Ch…

be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.

In an inflexible manner.

Inflection.

Inflective. "Inflexive endings." W. E. Jelf.

An inflection; a bend or fold. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Flexed or bent inward.

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale.

Bent backward or outward.

The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.

cted, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.

See Reflection. Chaucer.

The state or condition of being reflected. [R.]

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.

In a reflex manner; reflectively.

Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

Half bent.

Inflexible.