Synonyms for stiff
stɪfstiff

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1. stiff

   That is severe which is devoid of all softness, mildness, tenderness, indulgence or levity, or (in literature and art) devoid of unnecessary ornament, amplification, or embellishment of any kind; as, a severe style; as said of anything painful, severe signifies such as heavily taxes endurance or resisting power; as, a severe pain, fever, or winter. Rigid signifies primarily stiff, resisting any effort to change its shape; a corpse is said to be rigid in death; hence, in metaphorical sense, a rigid person or character is one that resists all efforts to change the will or course of conduct; a rigid rule or statement is one that admits of no deviation. Rigorous is nearly akin to rigid, but is a stronger word, having reference to action or active qualities, as rigid does to state or character; a rigid rule may be rigorously enforced. Strict (Latin stringo, bind) signifies bound or stretched tight, tense, strenuously exact. Stern unites harshness and authority with strictness or severity; stern, as said even of inanimate objects, suggests something authoritative or forbidding. Austere signifies severely simple or temperate, strict in self-restraint or discipline, and similarly unrelenting toward others. We speak of austere morality, rigid rules, rigorous discipline, stern commands, severe punishment, harsh speech or a harsh voice, hard requirements, strict injunctions, and strict obedience. Strict discipline holds one exactly and unflinchingly to the rule; rigorous discipline punishes severely any infraction of it. The austere character is seldom lovely, but it is always strong and may be grand, commanding, and estimable.

   Synonyms:
   austere, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, morose, relentless, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, uncompromising, unmitigated, unrelenting, unyielding

   Antonyms:
   affable, bland, easy, genial, gentle, indulgent, lenient, mild, pliable, soft, sweet, tender, tractable, yielding

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1. stiff

   Synonyms:
   unbending, inflexible, rigid, unyielding, unpliant, stroux, stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, constrained, affected, starched, formal, ceremonious, difficult

   Antonyms:
   pliant, flexible, flaccid, yielding, easy, unaffected, genial, affable, unceremonious

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1. stiffnoun

   an ordinary man

   "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"

   Synonyms:
   remains, corpse, cadaver, clay

   Antonyms:
   sober, flexile, informal, mobile, weak, irresolute, flexible

2. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsadjective

   the dead body of a human being

   "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

   Synonyms:
   the Great Compromiser, remains, corpse, cadaver, mud, clay

   Antonyms:
   informal, mobile, sober, flexible, irresolute, weak, flexile

3. stiffadjective

   not moving or operating freely

   "a stiff hinge"

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

   Antonyms:
   flexible, mobile, sober, informal, flexile, irresolute, weak

4. stiffadjective

   powerful

   "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

   Antonyms:
   weak, sober, flexile, informal, irresolute, flexible, mobile

5. starchy, stiff, buckramadjective

   rigidly formal

   "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

   Antonyms:
   weak, sober, flexible, flexile, informal, mobile, irresolute

6. potent, strong, stiffadjective

   having a strong physiological or chemical effect

   "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

   Synonyms:
   slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, inviolable, besotted, solid, secure, buckram, warm, unassailable, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, substantial, powerful, plastered, fuddled, tight, firm, hard, unattackable, soused, soaked, sozzled, virile, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, blotto, unwavering, rigid, impregnable, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, potent, starchy, loaded, wet, steady

   Antonyms:
   flexile, informal, mobile, sober, flexible, irresolute, weak

7. firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwaveringadjective

   marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

   "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"

   Synonyms:
   staunch, slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, besotted, solid, buckram, blotto, pixilated, cockeyed, truehearted, fast(a), potent, unswerving, fast, fuddled, tight, soused, bulletproof, firm, unassailable, immobile, watertight, level, loyal, sozzled, unfluctuating, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, soaked, unwavering, crocked, rigid, plastered, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, starchy, loaded, wet, regular, steady

   Antonyms:
   informal, flexile, sober, flexible, weak, irresolute, mobile

8. rigid, stiffadjective

   incapable of or resistant to bending

   "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"

   Synonyms:
   slopped, pissed, blind drunk, unfaltering, fixed, besotted, steadfast, buckram, blotto, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, firm, inflexible, soused, sozzled, starchy, squiffy, unbendable, plastered, soaked, unshakable, unwavering, rigid, unbending, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, set, loaded, strict, wet, steady

   Antonyms:
   weak, flexile, flexible, mobile, sober, irresolute, informal

9. besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wetadverb

   very drunk

   Synonyms:
   affluent, stringent, rigorous, fuddled, skew-whiff, flush, laughable, ladened, plastered, smashed, steamed, ludicrous, tight, blotto, firm, unbendable, blind drunk, unwavering, impish, roiled, soaked, miffed, loaded, riled, steady, buckram, nasty, strong, pie-eyed, crocked, irritated, cockeyed, derisory, potent, puckish, slopped, wet, close, nonsensical, wealthy, sealed, awry(p), prankish, soused, unshakable, pixilated, wicked, pissed, peeved, askew, sozzled, wonky, mean, implike, miserly, besotted, squiffy, slicked, compressed, idiotic, nettled, laden, stung, taut, arch, ridiculous, starchy, mischievous, steadfast, absurd, preposterous, pissed off, sloshed, rigid, annoyed, moneyed, lopsided, mingy, lactating, unfaltering

   Antonyms:
   informal, weak, sober, flexible, irresolute, mobile, flexile

10. stiffadverb

    extremely

    "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"

    Synonyms:
    stiffly

    Antonyms:
    weak, flexible, irresolute, mobile, sober, informal, flexile

11. stiffly, stiffadverb

    in a stiff manner

    "his hands lay stiffly"

    Synonyms:
    rigidly, bolt, stiffly

    Antonyms:
    flexible, sober, flexile, irresolute, mobile, informal, weak

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1. • Man

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1. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   rigid, unbending, unyielding, inflexible

2. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   firm, tenacious, thick, inspissated

3. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, rigorous, severe, strict, straight-laced, stringent, peremptory, absolute, positive, austere, dogmatic, uncompromising

4. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   formal, constrained, ceremonious, punctilious, prim, starch, stately, chilling, frigid, in buckram

5. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   inelegant, cramped, harsh, crude, graceless, abrupt

6. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   strong, fresh

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1. stiffadjective

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, rigid, firm, unbending, inelastic, stark, impliable, rigorous, unyielding, inductile, strong, violent, forcible, inopposable, pertinacious, obstinate, tenacious, uncompromising, incompliant, constrained, formal, starched, affected, unnatural, precise, prim, ceremonious, prudish, punctilious, cramped, graceless, inelegant, (Slang) high, immoderate, large

   Antonyms:
   limber, flaccid, limp, flexible, lithe

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1. List of paraphrases for "stiff":

   rigid, steep, stiffness, fierce, harsh, severe, stone-cold, tough, hard, corpse

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How to use stiff in a sentence?

1. The American:

   Some days I'm stiffer than others. Yesterday I was out there hitting it great, driving it out there with Brooksy and DJ, and today I'm stiff. Hopefully I'm not that way tomorrow.

2. Dan Schoenthal:

   I wake up a little stiff and sore every morning, but I stretch out and get my gear together and by the time I eat a little breakfast and have some water, I'm usually pretty good to go.

3. Stephen King:

   I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth.

4. Ryan Russell:

   I rationalized my fear because it was easy to convince Ryan Russell that hiding who I was made the most sense. The competition is so stiff to stay in the league, that any small mark can lead a front office to choose another guy for your job.

5. Great Again:

   It's much easier being presidential, it's easy, all you have to do is act like a stiff... And everybody would be out of here so fast ! You wouldn't come in in the first place !