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