STIFF


Meaning of STIFF in English

I. adjective

1.

incapable of or highly resistant to bending or flexing

a stiff cardboard packing box

Synonyms: immalleable, impliable, incompliant, inelastic, inflexible, rigid, unbending, unflexible, unyielding; compare inflexible 2

Related Word: stiffish; hard, resistant; hardened, petrified; stark

Idioms: stiff as a board ( or poker)

Contrasted words: soft, softened; yielding; bendable, pliable, pliant; limber, supple, willowy

Antonyms: flexible, flexile

2.

Synonyms: intoxicated 1, ||boozy, ||canned, disguised, drunk, inebriated, ||lushed, muddled, pixilated, ||plastered

3.

Synonyms: obstinate , bullheaded, closed-minded, hardheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, pertinacious, self-willed, ||sot

4.

characterized by a lack of ease, grace, or spontaneity especially in style

a play whose dialogue and characters were stiff and perfunctory

Synonyms: buckram, cardboard, muscle-bound, stilted, wooden

Related Word: rigid, set, studied; machine-made, mechanical, stereotyped, stock; arid, dry, dull

Contrasted words: expressive, graphic, vivid; easy, fluent, graceful, smooth

5.

Synonyms: excessive 1, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate, steep, towering, unconscionable, undue

II. noun

1.

Synonyms: corpse , body, cadaver, carcass, ||cold meat, ||deader, mort, remains

2.

Synonyms: drunkard , boozehound, boozer, drunk, guzzler, inebriate, lush, ||lusher, sponge, swiller

3.

Synonyms: miser , cheapskate, muckworm, nabal, niggard, ||nipcheese, scrooge, skin, skinflint, tightwad

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