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Definition of Stiff
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Stiff
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Related Definitions:
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Stiff Quotations
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Gilbert K. Chesterton Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. Peter O'Toole Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. Robert Musil I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. Josef Albers |
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Stiff Translations
stiff in Danish is stiv stiff in Dutch is afgemeten, plechtig, ceremonieel stiff in Finnish is kankea stiff in French is rigide, gourd stiff in German is steif, starr, hart stiff in Italian is rigido stiff in Portuguese is duro stiff in Spanish is rigido, tieso stiff in Swedish is styv, stel, stram |
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