Dictionary
stiff
Meaning
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- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Potent.
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (slang) Erect.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
- Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/stɪf/
Cognate with Western Frisian
stiif
Cognate with Dutch
stijf
Cognate with German
steif
Cognate with Latin
stīpes
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