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- unrelaxed
collapse - nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips related words >
- starchy
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- rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
- consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" related words >
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- curdled,
- doughy,
- firm,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- mucilaginous,
- pasty,
- pokerlike,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- ropy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- starched,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- taut,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tight,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- unrelaxed,
- virgate,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous
- taut
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- pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"
- subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" related words >
- all ataunto,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ataunt,
- bungup and bilge-free,
- close,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- firm,
- in suspense,
- in trim,
- keyed-up,
- lengthened,
- neat,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- orderly,
- pokerlike,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- quivering,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- shipshape,
- smart,
- spruce,
- spun out,
- starched,
- starchy,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched tight,
- strung out,
- tense,
- tidy,
- tight,
- trig,
- trim,
- under a strain,
- unrelaxed,
- uptight,
- virgate,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- apathetic,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- breakaway,
- clashing,
- complaining,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- dilatory,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- firm,
- fractious,
- grudging,
- hostile,
- indifferent,
- inimical,
- laggard,
- loath,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- pokerlike,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- ramrodlike,
- reactionary,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- revolutionary,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- slow,
- slow to,
- starched,
- starchy,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- uncooperative,
- unenthusiastic,
- unrelaxed,
- unsubmissive,
- unyielding,
- unzealous,
- up in arms,
- virgate,
- withstanding
- rigid
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- incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"
- designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
- incapable of compromise or flexibility related words >
- abiding,
- accurate,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- at a standstill,
- attentive,
- austere,
- buckram,
- careful,
- cast-iron,
- changeless,
- close,
- conscientious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- correct,
- critical,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- determined,
- direct,
- dogged,
- dour,
- draconian,
- durable,
- enduring,
- even,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- express,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- firm as Gibraltar,
- fixed,
- flinty,
- frozen,
- fundamentalist,
- fussy,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard and fast,
- hard-core,
- hard-line,
- harsh,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- immobile,
- immotile,
- immotive,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- in buckram,
- inelastic,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- inexorable,
- infallible,
- inflexible,
- infrangible,
- intact,
- intransigent,
- inviolate,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- irremovable,
- lasting,
- literal,
- made of iron,
- mathematical,
- meticulous,
- micrometrically precise,
- microscopic,
- minute,
- mulish,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- nice,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- pat,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- pigheaded,
- pinpoint,
- pokerlike,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- quiescent,
- ramrodlike,
- refined,
- relentless,
- religious,
- religiously exact,
- remaining,
- renitent,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- rodlike,
- scientific,
- scientifically exact,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- set,
- severe,
- single-minded,
- solid,
- sound,
- square,
- stable,
- standpat,
- starch,
- starched,
- starchy,
- static,
- stationary,
- staunch,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- stilted,
- stout,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stringent,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- subtle,
- sustained,
- taut,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- thorough,
- tight,
- torpid,
- tough,
- unadaptable,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unaltered,
- unbending,
- unbreakable,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- uncompliant,
- uncompromising,
- undestroyed,
- undeviating,
- unerring,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unflexible,
- ungiving,
- unmovable,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unqualified,
- unrelaxed,
- unrelenting,
- unshifting,
- unswerving,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unwavering,
- unyielding,
- virgate
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