unfluid

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fluid

Adjective

unfluid (comparative more unfluid, superlative most unfluid)

1. Not fluid; stiff or fixed.
   • 2002, Guy McCrone, Aunt Bel:

     And presently Mrs. Arthur Moorhouse was to be seen waltzing with just that right amount of unfluid dignity, that regal stiffness that comes with middle age, a touch of rheumatism, and an evergrowing sense of one's own consequence.

   • 2002, Bruce Thomas, Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit:

     The way we are taught in school is to gather facts and concepts, so that, in the end, we grow up with a very fixed and unfluid sense of how things are.

   • 2019, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners:

     Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.