All stiff synonyms
stiff
S s adj stiff
- ball of fire β a very lively person
- an arm and a leg β If you say that something costs an arm and a leg, you mean that it is very expensive.
- halter β Archaic. lameness; a limp.
- behindhand β If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- potent β (of a cross) having a crosspiece at the extremity of each arm: a cross potent.
- fresh β newly made or obtained: fresh footprints.
- hammy β characteristic of a person who overacts.
- hard β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- campy β Campy means the same as camp.
- ceremonious β especially or excessively polite or formal
- immotile β not able to move; not motile.
- gimp β a limp.
- conscripted β enrolled for compulsory service, esp military service
- gluey β like glue; viscid; sticky.
- gloppy β marked by or full of glop.
- blind drunk β So intoxicated as to appear to have difficulty seeing.
- forced β strained, unnatural, or affected: a forced smile.
- departed β Departed friends or relatives are people who have died.
- incompressible β not capable of being compressed.
- cardboard β Cardboard is thick, stiff paper that is used, for example, to make boxes and models.
- hard-line β adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- apprehensive β Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- awkward β An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- highfaluting β pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- backbreaker β a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
adjective stiff
- excessive β More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
- impliable β (archaic) Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
- jelled β to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
- jellied β containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- wedged β having the shape of a wedge.
- offed β so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- overexact β Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- euphuistic β Of or pertaining to euphuism.
- formal β being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- wiry β made of wire.
- nonporous β full of pores.
- immalleable β (archaic) Not malleable.
- exorbitant β (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high.
verb stiff
- doublecross β To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- hosed β a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- beat around the bush β to talk around a subject without getting to the point
- frighten β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
noun stiff
- floater β a person or thing that floats.
- bacchanalian β characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- dead man β Building Trades. a log, concrete block, etc., buried in the ground as an anchor.
- body β Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- carouser β to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- mort β a male given name, form of Mortimer or Morton.
- corpse β A corpse is a dead body, especially the body of a human being.
- goner β a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.