stiff

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
2. (figuratively) Inflexible; rigid.
3. Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
4. (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
5. Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
6. Potent.
7. (informal) Expensive, pricey.
8. (informal) Dead, deceased.
9. (slang) Erect.
10. Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
11. Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
12. Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
13. Keeping upright.
14. Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
15. Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.

Noun

1. (Canada, US, countable, slang, uncountable) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
2. (countable, slang, uncountable) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) A cadaver; a dead person.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) A flop; a commercial failure.
5. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
6. (US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable) A customer who does not leave a tip.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
9. (countable, slang, uncountable) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.

Verb

1. To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
2. To cheat someone.
3. To tip ungenerously.
4. (slang) To kill.
5. (informal) To be unsuccessful.

Adv

Of the wind, with great force; strongly.

Conceptos

tieso

rígido

duro

firme

tirante

muerto de frío

acantilado

cadáver

sólido

yerto

fuerte

helado

abrupto

escarpado

resistente

rigido

inflexible

almidonado

cenizas

desalmado

estirado

exorbitante

fiambre

potente

recio

restos

restos mortales

subido

tenaz

de pelo erizado

cosa dura

borracho

ciego

constante

cuerpo

difícil

entumecido

erizado

espeso

firmo

formal

muerto

💀

obstinado

recto

serio

severo

adolorido

Sinónimos

rigid

hard

firm

solid

inflexible

tight

cadaver

corpse

tough

dead body

strong

remains

numb

formal

clay

carcass

body

harsh

tense

starchy

severe

strict

steadfast

unbending

thick

awkward

stubborn

unyielding

stringent

stern

steady

straight

rough

heavy

buckram

potent

unbendable

taut

constrained

obstinate

unshakable

stiffly

stilted

fast

steep

stiffen

crisp

prim

convulse

cramp

Traducciones

rigide

steif

raide

rigido

stijf

rígido

starr

stug

houterig

stram

star

rígid

dur

plechtig

hart

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/stɪf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: stiff

Heredado de inglés antiguo: stīf

Cognado con frisón occidental: stiif

Cognado con neerlandés: stijf

Cognado con noruego bokmal: stiv

Cognado con alemán: steif

Cognado con latín: stīpes

In summary

From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.

Oraciones

A strong bid may scare your partner stiff .

Una oferta fuerte puede asustar a su pareja rígida.