Stiff

Definition: Stiff

Stiff

Adjective

1. Lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs".

2. Not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge".

3. Powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink".

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

5. Hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant".

6. Of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar".

7. Incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker".

8. Slang for `drunk'.

Adverb

1. Extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff".

2. In a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly".

Noun

1. An ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff".

2. The dead body of a human being.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stiff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Stiff \Stiff\, adjective. [Comparative Stiffer; superlative Stiffest.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stiff

Affectation

Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

Cheerfulness

Keep a stiff upper lip.

Hardness

Adjective: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof.

Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Obstinacy

Arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety.

Ostentation

Solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched.

Petitioner

Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

Pride

Stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-laced; prim; (affected).

Restraint

Stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound.

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Weariness

Bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket; pill, stiff; heavy hours, "the enemy".

Wind

Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther.

Crosswords: Stiff

I must admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I already got a stiff on my hands, thank you. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

They're kind of stiff. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

He's got his crust all stiff and upper with that nancy boy accent (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Our limit is one stiff per day. (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney)

But a good stiff drink it surely don't (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker)

Kick 'em when they're stiff (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

To Bury a Stiff (1974)

Scared Stiff (1953)

The Lucky Stiff (1949)

Scared Stiff (1945)

Workin' Stiff (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Frozen Stiff (reference)

• Quit Your Job Often and Get Big Raises!: A Real-World Practical Guide to Dramatically Increase Your Wages, As Told by an Average Working Stiff Who qu (reference)

• Scared Stiff (reference)

• Stiff Upper Lip (reference)

• The Lucky Stiff (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stiff Upper Lips (reference)

• Stiff Upper Lip Live (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stiff Upper Lip (reference)

• Stiff Upper Lip (Bonus CD) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Red Devil 4213 4" Stiff Wall Scraper/Spackling Knife (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Farshot of Bitterroot wildflowers and stiff sagebrush. Credit: John Craig.

Medium shot of Bitterroot wildflower and stiff sagebrush. Credit: John Craig.

Photographs Illustrative of the Cololian Method of Treating Stiff Joints. : Ankle exercises. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drawings Illustrative of the Cololian Method of Treating Stiff Joints. : Ankle exercises. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

In a stiff storm in the western Pacific, 8 November 1944. Photographed from USS Intrepid (CV-11). USS Hancock (CV-19) is in the background. Credit: NAVY.

If dreams came true. Say!! Yah big stiff! Yah big four flusher! Yah big hunk of ... Credit: Library of Congress.

"A Stiff Point". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fauchelevent got well, but he had a stiff knee

A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon

A field of stiff weeds and thistles and tufted nettlebunches

For a moment the dog staggered on stiff legs, and then he went to lap the mud under the faucet

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In IC, the bladder wall may be irritated and become scarred or stiff. (references)

If you have symptoms such as fever or stiff neck, consult your doctor. (references)

Increased muscle tone is called hypertonia, and the baby may seem stiff or rigid. (references)

Business

Foreign lines also pose stiff competition. (references)

However, U.S. firms now face stiff competition from Japan, Korea and Taiwan. (references)

U.S. companies face stiff competition from Japan, Germany, France and other European countries. (references)

Children

Laos

Violence against children is prohibited by law, and violators are subject to stiff punishments. (references)

Benin

Criminal courts mete out stiff sentences to criminals convicted of crimes against children, but many such crimes never reach the courts due to lack of education and access to the courts or fear of police involvement in the problem. (references)

Civil Liberties

Japan

The new law imposes stiff penalties on persons illegally entering the country, and those deported are denied reentry for at least 5 years instead of the previous penalty of 1 year. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Though the U.S. is a major player in the rice market, competition is stiff. (references)

West Bank

U.S. products face stiff competition from European, Israeli, and locally made goods. (references)

Pakistan

These channels provide stiff competition to the PTV and STN in terms of advertising revenue. (references)

Human Rights

Botswana

In 2000 the Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration stated that stiff penalties would be imposed on prison officials who treat inmates improperly. (references)

Romania

During the year, the Parliament passed legislation that would have imposed stiff penalties on private citizens who failed to protect state secrets and would have allowed the Romanian Internal Intelligence Service to place its agents in areas considered sensitive, such as factories working for the defense industry and private companies producing maps. (references)

Minorities

India

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act lists offenses against disadvantaged persons and provides for stiff penalties for offenders. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

The proposed law has run into stiff resistance in Congress and passage is uncertain. (references)

Afghanistan

The Taliban imposed strict and oppressive order by means of stiff punishments for crimes in the areas that it controlled. (references)

Syria

Although new amendments to the Press Law permitted government-approved private individuals and organizations to publish their own newspapers, the same amendments also stipulated imprisonment and stiff financial penalties as part of broad, vague provisions prohibiting the publication of "inaccurate" information. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

Roadblocks impeded the opposition's ability to travel; and opposition leaders were detained intermittently and sometimes were mistreated, tortured, or assessed stiff fines. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

Any breach of regulation will be subject to stiff penalties. (references)

Kenya

Credit terms are stiff to meet, usually requiring fixed assets exceeding one to three times the amount of credit requested. (references)

Travel

Uk

UK penalties for drunk driving are stiff and often result in prison sentences. (references)

Oman

Generally speaking, U.S. firms are latecomers to the Omani market and face stiff competition from other established foreign companies. (references)

Colombia

Stiff fines are imposed if passports are not stamped on arrival and if stays exceeding sixty days are not authorized by the Colombian Immigration Agency (DAS Extranjeria). (references)

Women

Kuwait

Procurers often receive stiff jail terms. (references)

Tunisia

Nonetheless, there are stiff penalties for spousal abuse. (references)

Samoa

Convicted offenders often are given relatively stiff sentences of several years' imprisonment. (references)

Worker Rights

Taiwan

The law mandates stiff penalties for violations of no-strike and no-retaliation clauses. (references)

Portugal

In July a court in the northern town of Guimaraes imposed a stiff fine on a bakery that had already been cited three times for employing minors. (references)

Indonesia

Thousands of other children work on rubber, sugarcane, tobacco, cocoa, and coffee plantations, often helping their parents meet stiff production quotas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stiff": as stiff as a poker ♦ as stiff as a ramrod ♦ be as stiff as a poker ♦ be bored stiff ♦ be scared stiff ♦ be stiff ♦ become stiff ♦ big stiff ♦ bore stiff ♦ grow stiff ♦ have a stiff neck ♦ keep a stiff upper lip ♦ make stiff ♦ meet with a stiff refusal ♦ stiff as a poker ♦ stiff as as board ♦ stiff as starch ♦ stiff aster ♦ stiff climb ♦ stiff collar ♦ stiff gentian ♦ stiff neck ♦ stiff necked ♦ stiff price ♦ stiff prices ♦ stiff upper lip ♦ stiff with ♦ stiff with cold ♦ that's a bit stiff ♦ To keep a stiff upper lip. Additional references.

Beginning with "stiff": stiff-and-starchy, stiff-armed, stiff-backed, stiff-bodied, stiff-brimmed, stiff-bristled, stiff-collared, stiff-corseted, stiff-faced, stiff-fingered, stiff-framed, Stiff-hearted, stiff-in-the-saddle, stiff-jointed, stiff-kneed, stiff-leaf, stiff-leg, stiff-legged, stiff-like, stiff-limbed, stiff-locked, stiff-looking, stiff-necked, Stiff-neckedness, Stiff-Person Syndrome, stiff-soled, stiff-stemmed, Stiff-tailed, stiff-tails, stiff-upper-lip, stiff-upper-lipped, stiff-upper-lips, stiff-winged, stiff-wristed.

Ending with "stiff": board-stiff, less-stiff, oh-he-looks-a-bit-stiff, semi-stiff, too-stiff.

Albanian

para (ahead, before, beforehand, cash, chuck, contribution, currency, dough, Duff, forward, in face of, in front of, kale, loot, mammon, money, necessary, oil, oof, pelf, roll, shekels, shell, shiners, siller, splosh, the almighty), kufomë (body, cadaver, clod, corpse), i vendosur (decided, decisive, determinate, determined, established, firm, fixed, hell-bent, inveterate, nervy, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, situated, stalwart, stout, strong, unalterable, unfaltering, unhesitating), i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, scabrous, ticklish, toilful, trying), i tendosur (ding-dong, drawn tightly, strained, stretched, taut, tense, tight), i shtangët (fixed, inflexible, rigid, unbending), i sertë (dour, hard, hard boiled, hard-fisted, harsh, iron-bound, ornery, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, steely, stern, wayward), i paepur (adamant, cast iron, dogged, firm, hard bitten, hard boiled, implacable, indefatigable, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, rigid, tough, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding), i ngurtë (firm, obdurate, rigid, solid, stark, straitlaced, wooden), i ngrirë (congealed, dull, freezing, frost-bound, frosted, frozen, glace, glassy, lame, numb, prim, starchy, stilted), i ngjeshur (close, compact, compressed, concise, concisely, dense, impermeable, serried, succinct), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent), ‏بتصلب (perseveringly, tenaciously), ‏شاق (arduous, hard, laborious, malaise, onerous, painful, robust, strenuous, terrible, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill), ‏رسمي (authoritative, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocktail dress, dressed, formal, official, picturesque, solemn, starchy, state), ‏ثابت (abiding, constant, enduring, fast, firm, fixed, habitual, immobile, immovable, immutable, indubitable, invariable, lasting, lingering, perpetual, settled, solid, stabile, stable, standing, stationary, steadfast, steady, strong, stubborn, sturdy, substantive, unfailing, unmoved), ‏العامل (factor, laborer, laborist, labourer, labourist, operative, operator, performer, worker), ‏المتكبر (proud, snob), ‏جثة (body, cadaver, carcass, corpse, dead body, remain), ‏جاسئ (callous, rigid), ‏بصلابة, ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏متيبس, ‏صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding), ‏عويص (abstract, abstruse, deep, difficult, opaque, profound, recondite, strenuous), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏وطيد (firm, settled, solid, stable, steady), ‏قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), ‏قاس صلب (callous, concrete, firm, hard, harsh, inflexible, relentless, rigid, rough, ruthless, severe, solid, strict, tough), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏مصاب بالخدر, ‏جامد (hard, immobile, inactive, indeclinable, inert, inflexible, insensible, motionless, muscle bound, rigid, solid, standstill, static, stationary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който заяжда, лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly), мъчен (awkward, difficult, formidable, hairy, ill, rum, rummy, tight, tough, trying), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), нееластичен (inelastic), ожесточен (acrid, bitter, keen, warm), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), вдървен (tense, wooden), гъст (bushy, dense, double, full-bodied, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stringy, thick, turbid, viscous), плътен (closely-knit, compact, compacted, consistent, dense, fruity, open, orotund, resonant, rich, rotund, round, solid, sonorous, thick), колосан (starched, starchy), ъгловат, корав (firm, hard, iron-bound, rocky, severe), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), труп (body, cadaver, carcase, corpse, corpus, log, nog, subject, torso, trunk), резервиран (aloof, distant, inapproachable, incommunicative, offish, remote, reserved, reticent, retiring, self contained, undemonstrative), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), скован (angular, benumbed, constrained, inelastic, rigid, starch, starchy, stark), схванат, суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), книжни пари (paper). (various references)

Chinese 

僵硬 (stark). (various references)

Czech

strnulý (constrained, fixed, numb, rigid, torpid), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), ztuhlý (hardened, numb), utkvìlý (obsessive), upjatý (starchy, unapproachable), tvrdý (big, brazen, callous, crackdown, cruel, deep, hard, harsh, heavy, relentless, rigorous, sound, steely, stone-dead, stony, tough, unkind), tuhý (grim, hard, rigid, solid, tenacious, tough), přemrštìný (camp, exorbitant, extravagant, fancy, glowing, gushing, hysterical, immoderate, steep, unreasonable), přísný (austere, exacting, firm, hard, harsh, heavy, nice, rigid, rigorous, severe, sharp, stern, strict, stringent, strong, tough, uncharitable), naškrobený, nároèný (arduous, challenging, demanding, discerning, discriminating, exacting, hard, serious, severe, sophisticated), houževnatý (dogged, persistent, resilient, strenuous, tenacious, tough, wiry). (various references)

Danish

stiv (rigid). (various references)

Dutch

plechtig (ceremonious, formal, measured, solemn), ceremonieel (formal, measured), afgemeten (formal, measured). (various references)

Esperanto

rigida (rigid), ceremonia (formal, measured). (various references)

Faeroese

stívur (rigid). (various references)

Farsi 

مغلق , مستقیم (Proximate, Right, Straight, Upstanding), چوب شده , سیخ (Broach, Erect, Gad, Goad, Grid, Ramrod, Spur, Wooden), سفت کردن (Congeal, Firm, Fix, Jell, Tighten, Tone, Toughen), سفت (Astringent, Callous, Concrete, Fast, Hard, Inelastic, Ironclad, Stark, Taut, Tenacious, Tense, Thick, Tight, Tough, Wiry), شق کردن , شق (Inelastic, Prick, Taut, Tough, Wooden). (various references)

Finnish

kankea (numb, rigid, wooden), jäykkä (inflexible, rigid, stubborn, unbending). (various references)

French

rigide (stark), raide (starchy, stark, steep, strong), gourd. (various references)

Frisian

stiif (rigid), twang (formal, measured). (various references)

German

steif (erect, formal, hard, prim, primly, rigid, starched, starchily, starchy, stiffly, stilted, stoutly, strained, strong, stuffily, stuffy, taut, tautly, trig, wooden), starr (fixed, fossilized, glassy, inelastic, inflexible, intransigent, numb, paralyzed, petrified, procrustean, rigid, rigidly, set, torpid, torpidly, unblinking), hart (astringent, callous, callously, cruel, firm, grim, hard, hard boiled, hard core, hardly, harsh, harshly, punishing, rigorous, rigorously, robust, rough, roughly, rude, severe, severely, sharp, sharply, stable, steely, strong, tough, unsympathetically, unyielding, violent). (various references)

Greek 

άκαμπτος (adamant, obdurate, rigid). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאו�" (extremely, greatly, highly, much, quite, so, sorely, super, surpassingly, very), לא �'מיש (inflexible), קשיח (hard, rigid, starchy), קש�" (adamant, crusty, difficult, formidable, hard, harsh, heavy, severe, stern, Strait, tough), אשון (rigid, rough), חזק (cast iron, firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intense, intensive, mighty, potent, powerful, strong, tough), כליל (complete, completely, downright, entirely, out and out, over, passim, quite, stark, thoroughly, total, totally, utter, utterly, whole), סמור (bristling, nailing, stiffening), � וקש�" (coarse, dour, frigid, hard, hardliner, horny, inflexible, intractable, rigid, rough, severe, starchy). (various references)

Hungarian

váltó (bill, bill of exchange, crossing, draft, points, relay race, switch), feszes (slinky, starch, starched, starchy, stressful, taut, tense, tight), sűrű (bushy, chunky, consistent, serried, slurry, sticky oil, thicket), reménytelen alak, nyúlós (clammy, doughy, glutinous, gooey, pasty, ropy, runny, sticky, stringy, viscid, viscous), nehéz (burdensome, complicated, cumbersome, cumbrous, damper, difficult, grave, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard case, heavy, hefty, herculean, inconvenient, it's a bad job!, knotty, laborious, onerous, ponderous, stodgy, teaser, thorny, to be bunkered, to be hard to please, tough, trying), merev (angular, austere, cast iron, ceremonious, hard and fast, hard-shell, inductile, inflexible, muscle bound, rigid, stark, steady, stiff style, tense, unwinking, unyielding, wooden), megerőltető (against the collar, exacting, trying), makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, dour, froward, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed), kötelezvény (bond, chitty, note, note of hand), javíthatatlan ember. (various references)

Icelandic

stirður (rigid). (various references)

Indonesian

tegar (rigid, tough), pekat (strong, thick (liquid), tough), pegal (annoyed, fed up, painful, weariness, weary), mayat (body, carcass, corpse), kaku (awkward, curt, gauche, numb, rigid, stark), genjur, buntang (straing). (various references)

Italian

rigido (harsh, inflexible, martinet, numbly, primly, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, stark, stern, strait laced, stringent, taut, wooden), inflessibile (adamant, inflexible, relentless, resolute, rigid, steely, stern, tough, unbending, unfaltering, unrelenting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

窮屈 (constrained, formal, narrow, rigid, tight, uneasy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎ�"ちない (awkward, crude, stiff-mannered, unrefined), ぎ�"ちない (awkward, clumsy, constrained), ねばっ�"い (persistent, sticky, tenacious), きゅうくつ (constrained, formal, narrow, rigid, tight, uneasy), きょうじ�" (assassin's dagger, lunatic, madman, strong, tenacious, tough), かたぐるしい (ceremonious, formal, strict), かたくるしい (ceremonious, formal, strict), �"わ�"わ (starchy). (various references)

Korean 

뻣뻣한. (various references)

Manx

stark (inflexible, starch), roauyr (bulky, buxom, corpulent, fat, firm, fleshy, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, sleek, stout, thick), reen (dogged, hard, hard-and-fast, hard-boiled, hardy, rigid, sinewy, stark, stringy, thick-skinned, thick-skinned of person), rag (short storm), neulhoobagh (formal, inflexible, intractable, rigid, unbending, unfaltering), geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, strict, stringent, twinging), formoil (ceremonious, formal, full dress), doillee (difficult, hard, ticklish), creoi (adamant, bitter, bitter of frost, blistering, blistering as language, difficult, distressing, dry, hard, hard-boiled, hard-set, hardy, heartless, near, near with money, neat, obdurate, solid, steely, stiffen, stubborn, tough), chionn (austere, busy, delicate, erect, erect as penis, fast, firm, firmly, hard-pressed, hardy, inflated, speedy, stuck fast, taut, tense, tight-fitting). (various references)

Papiamen

steif (rigid). (various references)

Pig Latin

iffstay.(various references)

Portuguese

rígido (accomplished, dour, frigid, ironclad, relentless, rigid, set, severe, stark, stern, strict, stringent, unbending, uncomplying), teso (rigid, taut), hirto (bristly, rigid, standing on end, stark, untidy), duro (adamant, callous, cornered, crapy, crusty, die-hard, flinty, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, hard-boiled, hard-up, heartless, iron, iron-bound, jarring, marble, non-ductile, racking, rocky, rough, rugged, set, severe, shrewd, sinewy, solid, stand-up, stern, toilsome, tough, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unyielding, wiry). (various references)

Romanian

solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), scorţos (hard, rough), dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, involved, nice, parlous, qualmish, scabrous, spiny, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), înţepenit (fixed, heavy, rigid, stark), întãrit (crisp, packed, secure, set, weather beaten), anchilozat (ankylosed, hidebound), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), bãţos (offish, rigid), cadavru (body, corpse, corpus, corse, dead body), categoric (absolute, absolutely, beyond peradventure, categorical, categorically, clear, curt, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, dogmatic, downright, emphatic, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, formal, much, on the dead, peremptorily, peremptory, plump, positive, positively, simply, Square, unanswerable, unbending, unqualified), ceremonios (ceremonious, ceremoniously, formal, state), ţeapãn (benumbed, heavy, starchy, stout, strait laced, sturdy, unbending), dens (Cloggy, close, compact, dense, densely, gross, thick, tight), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), formal (express, formal, formally, formulary, modal, official, prim, scholastic, solemn), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, coarse, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stout, thick, voluminous), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stony, wintery, wintry), ridicat (advanced, erect, harsh, high, long, raised, raising, severe, standing, upright), rigid (angular, buckram, cast iron, hard and fast, hard set, harsh, incompressible, inflexible, rigid, rigidly, stark, steady, stern, stiffly, strait laced, wooden), compact (close, compact, compactly, dense, densely, firm, indiscrete, massive, serried, solid, tight). (various references)

Russian 

фальшивая банкнота, тугой (taut, tight, tough), труп (body, cadaver, corpse, dead body), твердый (adamant, cast iron, coriaceous, deep-seated, fast, firm, gritty, hard, hard and fast, resolute, resolved, rigid, rocky, set, solid, steadfast, stern, stony, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unyielding), крепкий (able bodied, beefy, burly, copper-bottomed, fast, firm, generous, hard, hearty, knitted, lusty, oaky, rocky, rugged, solid, strong, sturdy, tenacious, trig, unbeaten, wakeless, well-built, well-set), окостеневший, неупругий, негнущийся (inflexible, unbending), негибкий (inflexible), жесткий (bristly, chewy, get-tough, hard, hard and fast, harsh, ironclad, leathery, rigid, tough), принужденный (forced). (various references)

Scottish

rag (a rag, a wrinkle, benumbed, disinclined, inflexible, obstinate, rigid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strog (austere, dour, exacting, finical, finicking, firm, grim, rigid, severe, stern, strait, strict, stringent), usiljen (constrained, forced, mannered, starch, starched, starchy, strained), ukrućen (starched), ukočen (numb, prim, stodgy, torpid), pijanica (alcoholic, bibber, boozer, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, malt-worm, rummy, sot, souse, tippler, toper, winebibber), leš (body, cadaver, corpse), krut (frozen, rigid, stern), jak (beefy, bruiser, great, grunting ox, humming, intense, lusty, powerful, racy, red blooded, sinewy, spanking, strong, tenacious, yak), gust (bushy, dense, thick), čovek (bloke, chap, fellow, homo, human, human being, jack, man, maun, one, person, walla). (various references)

Spanish

rigido (rigid), tieso (hard, starchy, tense, tight), rígido (hard and fast, hidebound, rigid, set, stark, tense, wiry). (various references)

Sranan

steyfi (rigid). (various references)

Swedish

styv (rigid), stram (austere, severe, taut, tense, tight), stel (fixed, formal, frigid, hard, numb, prim, rigid, set, starchy, stark, torpid, wooden). (various references)

Turkish

sarp (abrupt, arduous, bluff, craggy, jagged, precipitous, rapid, rugged, scarped, steep), sahte banknot, sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), suç ortağı (abettor, accessary, accessory, accessory before the fact, accomplice, bottle-holder, confederate, joint offender), sahte para (base coin, counterfeit coin, plug, queer, stumer), alkollü (containing alcohol, intoxicated, intoxicating, spiked, spirituous, strong), absürd, koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, sombre, strong, tenebrous, thick), aşırı yüksek, içkili (boozed, soused, tipsy, wet), ölü (carcass, casualty, corpse, dead, deceased, defunct, exanimate, inanimate, late, lifeless, stone-dead, the dead), baş belâsı (a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the side, annoyance, bother, confounded, headache, hellbender, nuisance, old man of the sea, pain in the neck, pestilent, pestilential, tease, tough, troublemaker, troublesome), ceset (body, cadaver, carcase, carcass, corpse, dead body, mortal remains, necro-), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, steep, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), fahiş (excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, out of sight, prohibitive, prohibitory, steep, unconscientious, unreasonable), gergin (drawn, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on a knife-edge, on edge, on pins and needles, skittish, spread, strained, stressfull, stretched, taut, tense, tight, uptight), inanılmaz (beyond belief, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, steep, unbelievable, unheard of, unreliable), kabul edilemez (inadmissible, unacceptable), çetin (arduous, difficult, dingdong, hard, robust, rugged, tough), kati (conclusive, definite, exact, flat, stark), zorlu (formidable, intractable, mighty, redoubtable, robust, rugged, sticky, stringent, sweaty, thorny, tough), kurban (fall guy, fatality, holocaust, martyr, oblation, offering, patsy, peace offering, prey, sacrifice, sacrificial, sufferer, victim), tutulmuş (afflicted, afflicted with, engaged, hired, in love, lovestruck, reserved, smitten, smitten with, stricken, taken), yoğun (busy, compact, concentrated, crash, dense, gross, hectic, intense, intensive, peasoupy, rich, rush hour, thick, turbid), zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, sticky, strain, tight, trickish, uneasy), zoraki (constrained, far fetched, forced, forcedly, ghastly, strained, studied), katı (callous, emphatic, emphatical, firm, fold, hard, hard and fast, hard boiled, hard line, insensitive, ironclad, rigid, sclerous, solid, Square, steel, steely, stern, strict). (various references)

Ukrainian

та�"мний лист, вексель (bill, note, order), незграбна людина (blimp, gawk, goon, laggard, lout, oaf), напіврідкий, напружений (arduous, chilly, constrained, eager, high pressure, hot, prim, strained, stressful, strung, sulfurous, sulphurous, tensional, tight, wrought up), міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, firm, full-bodied, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit), закляклий (cataleptic, numb, stark), запеклий (cutthroat, hard-fought, out and out, stubborn), босяк. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vất vả h� khắc, nhắc, ngay đơ cứng rắn, ma c� bông (bindlestiff), kiên quyết (deadset, decidedly, peremptory, resolute, resolved, set, strong-willed, sturdy), khó nhọc (onerous, painful, rugged, toiful, toilsome, troublesome), không trơn khó, không tự nhiên rít, không nhân nhượng cứng, cứng đơ, cứng (hard, unbending, unsupple, unyielding). (various references)

Welsh

syth (straight), celain (corpse, dead body), anystwyth (inflexible, rigid), anhydwyth, anhyblyg (inflexible, rigid, stubborn), afrwydd (awkward, clumsy, difficult). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stiff": stiffed, stiffen, stiffened, stiffener, stiffeners, stiffening, stiffens, stiffer, stiffest, stiffing, stiffish, stiffly, stiffness, stiffnesses, stiffs. (additional references)

Words ending with "stiff": bullmastiff, mastiff. (additional references)

Words containing "stiff": bullmastiffs, mastiffs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stiff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scheff, Schieff, Schiffko, setif, sgiff, staf, staffa, staft, stafu, steef, stef, steff, steiff, stief, stif, stife, stiffy, stiuf, stufe, styf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tiffs.

-1 letter: fist, fits, sift, tiff.

-2 letters: fit, iff, ifs, its, sit, tis.

-3 letters: if, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: fifths, soffit, stiffs.

+2 letters: distaff, fifties, fistful, haffits, iffiest, mastiff, soffits, stiffed, stiffen, stiffer, stiffly, taffias, taffies, tariffs, tiffins, tipoffs, toffies.

+3 letters: affiants, afflicts, buffiest, caitiffs, daffiest, distaffs, fifteens, fiftyish, finfoots, fistfuls, fixatifs, flatfish, forfeits, huffiest, liftoffs, mastiffs, miffiest, pontiffs, puffiest, staffing, stiffens, stiffest, stiffing, stiffish, stuffier, stuffily, stuffing, tipstaff, traffics, whiffets.

+4 letters: affrights, chaffiest, chuffiest, cliffiest, diffracts, disaffect, draffiest, facelifts, faithfuls, feetfirst, fiftieths, fistfight, fluffiest, fogfruits, forklifts, fortifies, gruffiest, offprints, pikestaff, ruffliest, sgraffiti, sgraffito, sniffiest, snuffiest, spiffiest, stiffened, stiffener, stiffness, stuffiest, stuffings, taffrails, tiffanies, tipstaffs, waitstaff, writeoffs.