RIGIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigidly mean? 

• RIGIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb RIGIDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a rigid manner

  Familiarity information: RIGIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a rigid manner

Synonyms:

bolt; rigidly; stiffly

Context example:

he sat bolt upright

Pertainym:

rigid (incapable of or resistant to bending)

 Context examples 

Not that I mean to say it's rigidly limited to seventy pounds a-year, because I have always contemplated making any young friend I might thus employ, a present too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saw the two gangs, aggressive and sullen, rigidly keeping apart from each other and backing their respective champions; and he saw himself and Cheese-Face stripping.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Off the Farallones, heading about sou-west,” he answered, slowly and methodically, as though groping for his best English, and rigidly observing the order of my queries.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The shutters had been opened, but the blinds were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality at meals was rigidly enforced at Gateshead Hall.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There, dimly outlined at the top window, I could see the shadow of a head, a woman’s head, gazing tensely, rigidly, out into the night, waiting with breathless suspense for the renewal of that interrupted message.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

White Fang walked stiff-legged up the steps and across the porch, with tail rigidly erect, keeping his eyes on Dick to guard against a flank attack, and at the same time prepared for whatever fierce manifestation of the unknown that might pounce out upon him from the interior of the house.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Gatsby turned to me rigidly: I can't say anything in his house, old sport.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)