Synonyms for stiff
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : stif |
| Phonetic Transcription : stɪf |
Top 10 synonyms for stiff Other synonyms for the word stiff
- angular
- annealed
- arduous
- artificial
- austere
- benumbed
- brittle
- buckram
- cemented
- ceremonious
- chilled
- congealed
- constrained
- contracted
- cruel
- drastic
- exact
- exacting
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- fatiguing
- firm
- fixed
- forced
- formidable
- frozen
- graceless
- great
- hardened
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- immalleable
- immoderate
- impliable
- incompliant
- indurate
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- inordinate
- intractable
- jelled
- labored
- laborious
- mannered
- mechanical
- numbed
- obstinate
- oppressive
- ossified
- pertinacious
- petrified
- pitiless
- pompous
- potent
- powerful
- priggish
- prim
- punctilious
- refractory
- relentless
- resistant
- rheumatic
- set
- sharp
- solid
- solidified
- starched
- starchy
- stark
- steely
- steep
- stiff as a board
- stilted
- stony
- strict
- stringent
- strong
- stubborn
- taut
- tense
- thick
- thickened
- tight
- tough
- towering
- trying
- unbending
- unconscionable
- undue
- uneasy
- unflexible
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unnatural
- unrelaxed
- unrelenting
- unsupple
- unyielding
- uphill
- vigorous
- wooden
Définition of stiff
Origin :- Old English stif "rigid, inflexible," from Proto-Germanic *stifaz "inflexible" (cf. Dutch stijf, Old High German stif, German steif "stiff;" Old Norse stifla "choke"), from PIE *stipos-, from root *steip- "press together, pack, cram" (cf. Sanskrit styayate "coagulates," stima "slow;" Greek stia, stion "small stone," steibo "press together;" Latin stipare "pack down, press," stipes "post, tree trunk;" Lithuanian stipti "stiffen," stiprus "strong;" Old Church Slavonic stena "wall"). Of battles and competitions, from mid-13c.; of liquor, from 1813. To keep a stiff upper lip is attested from 1815.
- adj hard, inflexible
- adj formal, standoffish
- adj difficult
- adj extreme, severe
- Opposite him sat a tall fellow very erect and stiff in his chair.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- The coverlet dropped from her breast; her hand was suspended with stiff fingers.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- A figure in white, with a stiff white cap, stood by the bed.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- She was thin, thinner than ever, and stiff as if she had withered.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Her fingers were stiff, but so was her will: the way she stuck to her work was pathetic.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Whip the cream until it is stiff and fold this into the mixture.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Their flesh should be firm and stiff and their eyes should be bright.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Her stiff cap moved in the breeze as it swung from the corner of her mirror.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- You must remember him,—his name was Jorg, and he had stiff, black hair.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- We moved with difficulty, and I found my limbs so stiff as to be scarcely manageable.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
Antonyms for stiff
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