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stiff

 
Adjective stiff has 8 senses
  1. stiff - lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs"
    Antonyms:
    flexible, flexile (indirect, via inflexible)
  2. stiff - not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
    Antonym:
    mobile (indirect, via immobile)
  3. stiff - powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink"
    Antonym:
    weak (indirect, via strong)
  4. starchy, stiff, buckram - rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
    Antonym: informal (indirect, via formal)
  5. stiff, uphill - hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
    Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
  6. stand-up, stiff - of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar"
    Antonyms: flexible, flexile (indirect, via inflexible)
  7. rigid, stiff - incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
    Antonyms: flexible, flexile (indirect, via inflexible)
  8. besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet - very drunk
    Antonym: sober (indirect, via intoxicated)
Adverbial stiff has 2 senses
  1. stiff - extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
  2. stiffly, stiff - in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
Noun stiff has 2 senses
  1. stiff - an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
    --1 is a kind of
    man, adult male
  2. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains - the dead body of a human being
    --2 is a kind of body, dead body
    --2 has particulars: cremains
stifel stifeling stifell stiff- stiff-backed stiff-jointed stiff-necked stiff-pressed stiff stiff aster stiff coarse hair stiff competition stiff gentian stiff hair stiff neck stiff upper lip stiffel

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