Think of pressing on something and feeling nothing give. A steel bar, a thick board, a new leather shoe: you push, and it stays exactly where it was. It does not snap and it does not fight back — it simply has no bend in it. Every use of inflexible can be traced back to that feeling of pushing and getting no give, whether what you are pushing against is a material, a , or a person.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records inflexible as a borrowing from Middle French inflexible, from Latin inflexibilis, and points to in- plus flexible. The Latin root flectere means to bend, so the word is literally not able to be bent — which is the core picture itself.
Wiktionary 記載 inflexible 借自中古法文 inflexible，來自拉丁文 īnflexibilis，並指向 in- 加 flexible 的組合。字根 flectere 就是「彎」，所以整個字的字面意思就是「彎不下去」——這正好就是核心畫面本身。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry for inflexible: Borrowed from Middle French inflexible, from Latin īnflexibilis. See also in- + flexible.
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