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Definitions for Stiff

[1] rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
[2] not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold weather.
[3] (of a person or animal) not supple; moving with difficulty, as from cold, age, exhaustion, or injury.
[4] strong; forceful; powerful: stiff winds; The fighter threw a stiff right to his opponent's jaw.
[5] strong or potent to the taste or system, as a beverage or medicine: He was cold and wanted a good stiff drink.
[6] resolute; firm in purpose; unyielding; stubborn.
[7] stubbornly continued: a stiff battle.
[8] firm against any tendency to decrease, as stock-market prices.
[9] rigidly formal; cold and unfriendly, as people, manners, or proceedings.
[10] lacking ease and grace; awkward: a stiff style of writing.
[11] excessively regular or formal, as a design; not graceful in form or arrangement.
[12] laborious or difficult, as a task.
[13] severe or harsh, as a penalty or demand.
[14] excessive; unusually high or great: $50 is pretty stiff to pay for that.
[15] firm from tension; taut: to keep a stiff rein.
[16] relatively firm in consistency, as semisolid matter; thick: a stiff jelly; a stiff batter.
[17] dense or compact; not friable: stiff soil.
[18] Nautical . (of a vessel) having a high resistance to rolling; stable (opposed to crank2).
[19] Scot. and North England . sturdy, stout, or strongly built.
[20] Australian Slang . out of luck; unfortunate.
[21] Slang . a dead body; corpse. a formal or priggish person. a poor tipper; tightwad. a drunk.
[22] Slang . a fellow: lucky stiff; poor stiff. a tramp; hobo. a laborer.
[23] Slang . a forged check. a promissory note or bill of exchange. a letter or note, especially if secret or smuggled.
[24] Slang . a contestant, especially a racehorse, sure to lose.
[25] in or to a firm or rigid state: The wet shirt was frozen stiff.
[26] completely, intensely, or extremely: I'm bored stiff by these lectures. We're scared stiff.
[27] Slang . to fail or refuse to tip (a waiter, porter, etc.).
[28] Slang . to cheat; gyp; do out of: The company stiffed me out of a week's pay.
[29] not easily bent; rigid; inflexible
[30] not working or moving easily or smoothly a stiff handle
[31] difficult to accept in its severity or harshness a stiff punishment
[32] moving with pain or difficulty; not supple a stiff neck
[33] difficult; arduous a stiff climb
[34] unrelaxed or awkward; formal
[35] firmer than liquid in consistency; thick or viscous
[36] powerful; strong a stiff breeze ; a stiff drink
[37] excessively high a stiff price
[38] nautical (of a sailing vessel) relatively resistant to heeling or rolling Compare tender 1 (def. 11)
[39] lacking grace or attractiveness
[40] stubborn or stubbornly maintained a stiff fight
[41] obsolete tightly stretched; taut
[42] slang , mainly Australian unlucky
[43] slang intoxicated
[44] stiff upper lip See lip (def. 9)
[45] stiff with informal amply provided with
[46] slang a corpse
[47] slang anything thought to be a loser or a failure; flop
[48] completely or utterly bored stiff ; frozen stiff
[49] (intr) slang to fail the film stiffed
[50] (tr) slang , mainly US to cheat or swindle
[51] (tr) slang to kill

Words related to Stiff

solid, stark, tight, tense, rigid, thick, wooden, creaky, arthritic, cold, strong, hard, tough, heavy, stringent, excessive, harsh, brisk, strict, rigorous

Words nearby Stiff

sticky-fingered, stickybeak, stiction, stiegel, stieglitz, stiff, stiff as a board, stiff upper lip, stiff-arm, stiff-man syndrome, stiff-necked

Origin of Stiff

before 1000; Middle English (adj. and adv.); Old English stīf; cognate with German steif; akin to stifle1, steeve1

Other words from Stiff

stiff·ish , adjective
stiff·ly , adverb
stiff·ness , noun
o·ver·stiff , adjective
o·ver·stiff·ly , adverb
o·ver·stiff·ness , noun
sem·i·stiff , adjective
sem·i·stiff·ly , adverb
sem·i·stiff·ness , noun
un·stiff , adjective
un·stiff·ly , adverb
un·stiff·ness , noun

Word origin for Stiff

Old English stīf; related to Old Norse stīfla to dam up, Middle Low German stīf stiff, Latin stīpēs wooden post, stīpāre to press

Synonyms for Stiff

arthritic, creaky, rigid, solid, stark, tense, thick, tight, wooden, brittle, buckram, firm, refractory, rheumatic, set, annealed, benumbed, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, resistant, solidified, starched, starchy, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, thickened, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding