Definition of Stiff

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Definition of Stiff

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.

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Stiff Quotations

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

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

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

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Gustav Klimt

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr

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

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
Lynn Redgrave

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.
Jim Gerlach

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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