stiff

Oznaczający (English)

Adj

1. Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
2. 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) Dead, deceased.
8. (slang) Erect.
9. Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
10. Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
11. Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
12. Keeping upright.
13. Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
14. Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.

Noun

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

Synonyms

rigid

hard

firm

inflexible

solid

tight

tough

cadaver

corpse

strong

dead body

remains

numb

formal

carcass

clay

harsh

body

severe

starchy

strict

steadfast

tense

awkward

unbending

thick

unyielding

stubborn

heavy

stringent

rough

potent

steady

stern

buckram

straight

constrained

stiffly

unwavering

unshakable

crisp

obstinate

stilted

fast

cramp

steep

stiffen

taut

prim

unbendable

convulse

unmalleable

ceremonious

slopped

sloshed

blotto

smashed

dense

soaked

lignified

soused

sozzled

spasm

difficult

numbness

squiffy

obdurate

starched

stark

steely

sticky

clumsy

hardened

cockeyed

paralysed

haughty

besotted

big

stretched out

dry

dull

pie-eyed

durable

pissed

pixilated

plastered

abrupt

austere

inelastic

tenacious

tired

😫

intense

unfaltering

unflinching

keen

callous

resolute

crocked

loaded

loud

wet

blind drunk

wooden

rugged

acute

frozen to death

lie flat

fuddled

be hard

sharp

persistent

perspicacious

petrified

piercing

plastic

pointed

powerful

prissy

procedural

prudish

puissant

pungent

quick-witted

racy

ready

rectangular

red-blooded

reedy

reserved

resolutely

rheumatic

rigorous

roadkill

robust

rocky

ruffianly

running

🏃

salty

serious

set

shrill

slick

slow

smart

smug

soulless

spiky

spiritless

stable

standfast

stiff necked

stiffness

stiff with cold

stingy

stocky

stodgy

stone

🪨

stony

stout

strait-laced

strident

stubbed

stubbly

stuffy

stunned

sturdy

substance

substantial

supporting

swell

tall

tart

tetanic

toilsome

tramp

transfixed

trenchant

truculent

unbent

unbowed

uneasy

able

unforgiving

ungainly

unlucky

unpolished

unrefined

unrelenting

vagabond

vapid

viscous

waster

wastrel

wiry

Aas

acuate

become erect

form-only

fulgurating

of the body

stiff-backed

scirrhous

walking

🚶

unrelaxed

rocklike

ball-breaker

ball-buster

not natural

unelastic

boardy

numb with weariness

very stiff

unfeeling

acerb

acerbic

aching

adhesive

arduous

arrive

athletic

attenuated

authoritative

bad

👎

beaked

bearing

be cold

biting

bitter

blistering

bloody-minded

bold

brave

bright

brutal

carcase

careful

carrion

chilly

clear

cohesive

cold-hearted

compact

concentrated

conventional

cordial

cramped

crude

cruel

crusty

cutting

dead

💀

decorous

deep

discriminative

doggedly

dour

drunk

drunkard

erect

everyman

expensive

💰

exquisite

fellow

fixed

flint

flinty

fly

✈️

forceful

formalised

formalistic

fresh

frozen

gait

gawky

gent

gluey

glutinous

gummy

ham-handed

hardcore

hard-core

hard-headed

heartless

hearty

heavy-duty

hesitating

hubby

inanimate

incisive

inexorable

ingenious

insensate

insensible

insensitive

intoxicated

iron

jellied

kite

🪁

laborious

laboured

lifeless

male

man

👨

massive

measured

mighty

money

💸

mordacious

mordant

motionless

narrow

nonelastic

numbed

offhand

off-hand

offhanded

off-handed

orotund

paper

peaked

peaky

perceptive

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/stɪf/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: stiff

Inherited from staroangielski: stīf

Cognate with zachodniofryzyjski: stiif

Cognate with niderlandzki: stijf

Cognate with norweski (bokmål): stiv

Cognate with niemiecki: steif

Cognate with łaciński: 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.

Zdania

A strong bid may scare your partner stiff .