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stiff
Synonyms and Antonyms of stiff
- use a stiff piece of paper for the project
- stiff winds
- don't you think that's a pretty stiff fine for such a minor infraction?
- stir two cups of flour with the remaining ingredients to make a stiff dough
- felt stiff and ill-at-ease whenever she was introduced to her parentsʼ friends
awkward, clumsy, gauche, graceless, inelegant, rough-hewn, rustic (also rustical), stilted, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungraceful, wooden
angular, gawky, lubberly, ungainly
abashed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed
agitated, bothered, chagrined, dismayed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, fazed, flustered, jittery, jumpy, mortified, nervous, nonplussed (also nonplused), perturbed, rattled, unhinged, unsettled, upset
diffident, insecure, meek, modest, self-doubting, timid, unassertive, unassuming, unpretentious
- we'll have a stiff climb to actually reach the summit
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- the stiff politeness with which I was greeted suggested that they weren't truly happy to see me
- seeing that the customer was more than a little stiff, the bartender offered to call a cab for him
besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]
Synonym Discussion of stiff
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- stretching keeps your muscles from becoming stiff
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- a rigid surfboard
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- ski boots with inflexible soles
stiff
Synonyms and Antonyms of stiff
- one lucky stiff will get the biggest jackpot in the lottery's history
stiff
Synonyms and Antonyms of stiff
- the actress has a reputation for stiffing the press at red-carpet events
- customers who were too embarrassed to admit that they had been stiffed by an Internet company claiming to sell designer handbags
beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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