stiff

1. (adverb) extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"

2. (satellite adjective) lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs"

3. (satellite adjective) hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
Synonyms: uphill

4. (satellite adjective) not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"

5. (satellite adjective) powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink"

6. (noun) an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
Related Words: adult male, man

7. (adverb) in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
Synonyms: stiffly

8. (satellite adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
Synonyms: rigid

9. (satellite adjective) of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar"
Synonyms: stand-up

10. (satellite adjective) rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
Synonyms: buckram, starchy

11. (noun) the dead body of a human being
Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains
Related Words: body, cremains, dead body

12. (satellite adjective) slang for `drunk'
Synonyms: besotted, blind, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tiddley, tiddly, tight, tipsy, wet



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