About The Word Stiff
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Stiff
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What's The Definition Of Stiff?
[n] the dead body of a human being
[n] an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff" [adv] in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [adv] extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff" [adj] (slang) very drunk [adj] incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker" [adj] of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" [adj] lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs" [adj] rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [adj] hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant" [adj] not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge" [adj] powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stiff: besotted | blind drunk | blotto | buckram | cadaver | clay | corpse | crocked | drunk | formal | fuddled | hard | immobile | inebriated | inflexible | intoxicated | loaded | pie-eyed | pissed | pixilated | plastered | potty | remains | rigid | slopped | sloshed | smashed | soaked | soused | sozzled | squiffy | stand-up | starchy | stiffly | strong | tiddley | tiddly | tight | tipsy | uphill | wet Related Terms | Find terms related to Stiff: See Also | adult male | body | cremains | dead body | man Stiff In Webster's Dictionary \Stiff\, a. [Compar. {Stiffer}; superl. {Stiffest}.] [OE.
stif, AS. st[=i]f; akin to D. stijf, G. steif, Dan. stiv, Sw.
styf, Icel. st[=i]fr, Lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. L. stipes
a post, trunk of a tree, stipare to press, compress. Cf.
{Costive}, {Stifle}, {Stipulate}, {Stive} to stuff.]
1. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid
a["e]rial sky. --Milton.
2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;
neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
3. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff
gale or breeze.
4. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate;
pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
--Jer. Taylor.
A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to
defend their hospitable laws. --Dryden.
5. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;
starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the
Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.
--Addison.
6. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or
Colloq.] ``This is stiff news.'' --Shak.
7. (Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much;
as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to {crank}. --Totten.
8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff
charge; a stiff price. [Slang]
{Stiff neck}, a condition of the neck such that the head can
not be moved without difficulty and pain.
Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate;
pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected;
starched; rigorous.
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