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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Intransigent and inflexible

Hi

Are these words essentially synonymous? Intransigent and inflexible

I checked the Google Ngram for their popularity and was expecting to see a huge difference, but the difference. was anything but big. Can I ask how common intransigent is amongst native speakers?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intransigent%2Cinflexible%2C&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cintransigent%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cinflexible%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. TomAre these words essentially synonymous? Intransigent and inflexibleI checked the Google Ngram for their popularity

You cannot enter single words and determine synonymy:

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Mr. TomCan I ask how common intransigent amongst native speakers?

Less so than 'inflexible'. It is a 'big word'.

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