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Adjective stiff- has 8 senses
- stiff - lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs"
Antonyms: flexible, flexile (indirect, via inflexible)
- stiff - not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
Antonym: mobile (indirect, via immobile)
- stiff - powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink"
Antonym: weak (indirect, via strong)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- stiff - extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
- stiffly, stiff - in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
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