All 3 Uses of
inflexible
in
Gone with the Wind
- When they looked into her young face and saw there the inflexible loyalty to the old days, they could forget, for a moment, the traitors within their own class who were causing fury, fear and heartbreak.†
Chpt 4.41inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
- Suddenly words began to bubble out, swift hot words and there was inflexible hate in the low voice.†
Chpt 5.49 *
- But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacable and inflexible power behind the social throne.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
not bendable or adaptable
in various senses, including:
- not willing to compromise or make concessions -- as when a boss says "Do it my way or you're fired."
- not able to adjust well to different conditions -- as of a schedule that cannot be changed
- not easily bent without physical damage or injury -- as of brittle steel or person with stiff joints