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Stiff (disambiguation); Stiff (book)
stiff
a.
1.
Rigid, unbending, unyielding, inflexible, stark, subrigid.
2.
Firm, tenacious, thick, inspissated.
3.
Stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, tenacious, strong.
4.
Rigorous, severe, strict, strait-laced, stringent, peremptory, absolute, positive, austere, dogmatic, uncompromising, inexorable.
5.
Formal, constrained, ceremonious, punctilious, prim, starch, stately, chilling, frigid, in buckram.
6.
Inelegant, cramped, harsh, crude, graceless, abrupt.
7.
Strong, fresh.
stiff
¦ adjective
1. not easily bent; rigid.
not moving freely; difficult to turn or operate.
unable to move easily and without pain.
2. not relaxed or friendly; constrained.
3. severe or strong: they face stiff fines.
(of a wind) blowing strongly.
(of an alcoholic drink) strong.
4. (stiff with) informal full of.
5. (-- stiff) informal having a specified unpleasant feeling to an extreme extent: scared stiff.
¦ noun informal
1. a dead body.
2. chiefly N. Amer. a boring, conventional person.
¦ verb informal
1. N. Amer. cheat (someone).
fail to leave (someone) a tip.
2. N. Amer. ignore deliberately; snub.
3. kill (someone).
Phrases
a stiff upper lip a quality of uncomplaining stoicism.
Derivatives
stiffish adjective
stiffly adverb
stiffness noun
Origin
OE stif, of Gmc origin.
stiff
adj. frozen stiff
Wikipedia
Stiff
Stiff may refer to:
- Stiff, a human corpse
- Stiffness, a material's resistance to bending
- Stiff (novel), a novel by Shane Maloney in his Murray Whelan series
- Stiff (film), an Australian TV movie based on the novel
- Stiff (professional wrestling), how a wrestler attacks an opponent
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, a book by Mary Roach
- Stiff Records, a British record label
- Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF), an annual event
- Jimmy Stiff, former member of American rock band Jackyl
- Stiff (album), by White Denim.
Examples of use of stiff
1. Forces weren‘t expected to encounter stiff resistance.
2. Scarring has contorted her hands into stiff claws.
3. The president still faces some stiff challenges, however.
4. STIFF RESISTANCE Israel‘s efforts to push Hizbollah back from the border and stop rocket fire into Israel have met stiff resistance.
5. Chadian President Idriss Deby has demanded stiff penalties.