[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stiff \stiff\, a. compar. stiffer; superl. stiffest. oe.
   stif, as. stimacf; akin to d. stijf, g. steif, dan. stiv,
   sw. styf, icel. stimacfr, lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. l.
   stipes a post, trunk of a tree, stipare to press, compress.
   cf. costive, stifle, stipulate, stive to stuff.
   1. not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
      flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
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            they rising on stiff pennons, tower
            the mid aerial sky.                   --milton.
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   2. not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;
      neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
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   3. firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff
      gale or breeze.
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   4. not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate;
      pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
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            it is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
                                                  --jer. taylor.
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            a war ensues: the cretans own their cause,
            stiff to defend their hospitable laws. --dryden.
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   5. not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;
      starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
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            the french are open, familiar, and talkative; the
            italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.
                                                  --addison.
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   6. harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. obs. or
      colloq. "this is stiff news." --shak.
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   7. naut. bearing a press of canvas without careening much;
      as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. --totten.
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   8. very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff
      charge; a stiff price. slang
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   stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can
      not be moved without difficulty and pain.
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   syn: rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate;
        pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected;
        starched; rigorous.
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see also:
stiffer stiffest costive stifle stipulate stive 
crank stiff neck 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stiff
     adj 1: lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff
            joints"; "stiff hairs"
     2: not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
     3: powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff
        drink"
     4: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff
        and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" syn: starchy,
         buckram
     5: hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff
        exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
        syn: uphill
     6: of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an
        uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" syn: stand-up
     7: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
        metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
        guardsman stiff as a poker" syn: rigid
     8: very drunk syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked,
         cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated,
         plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked,
         soused, sozzled, squiffy, tiddly, tiddley, tight,
         tipsy, wet
     n 1: an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
     2: the dead body of a human being syn: cadaver, corpse, clay,
         remains
     adv 1: extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
     2: in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" syn: stiffly
see also:
starchy buckram uphill stand-up rigid besotted 
blind drunk blotto crocked cockeyed fuddled 
loaded pie-eyed pissed pixilated plastered 
potty slopped sloshed smashed soaked 
soused sozzled squiffy tiddly tiddley 
tight tipsy wet cadaver corpse 
clay remains stiffly 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

522 moby thesaurus words for "stiff":
   arab, bowery bum, latinate, a bit much, abandoned, abusive,
   adamant, adamantine, afflictive, alcoholic, all thumbs, aloof,
   arduous, arid, artificial, ashes, austere, awkward, balker,
   balky horse, barren, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar,
   beggarly fellow, blah, blank, blighter, blind, blind drunk,
   bloodless, blotto, blue-collar worker, blunderheaded, blundering,
   bo, body, bold, bombastic, bones, boorish, boundless, breadwinner,
   brisk, brittle, buckram, budmash, bum, bumbling, bummer, bungling,
   butterfingered, cadaver, caitiff, carcass, careless, carrion,
   cartilaginous, cast-iron, casual, casual laborer, ceremonious,
   challenging, characterless, cheapskate, chewy, chilly, clay,
   clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cohesive, cold, colorless,
   common laborer, compact, cool, coriaceous, corpse, corpus delicti,
   costly, cramped, crock, crowbait, cruel, cumbersome, cumbrous,
   day laborer, dead, dead as mutton, dead body, dead man,
   dead person, dear, dear-bought, decedent, dense, derelict,
   determined, devil, difficult, dismal, distressing, dog, dogged,
   dogie, dour, draggy, drastic, drearisome, dreary, drifter,
   drunkard, dry, dry bones, dryasdust, dull, durable, dust, dusty,
   earth, effete, egregious, elephantine, embalmed corpse, employee,
   empty, energetic, enormous, etiolated, exaggerated, excessive,
   excruciating, exhausting, exorbitant, expensive, extravagant,
   extreme, fabulous, factory worker, fade, fancy, fatiguing, fibrous,
   fingers all thumbs, firm, fit for sea, flat, flinty, flunky,
   food for worms, forced, forceful, formal, free lance, free-lancer,
   fresh, full-time worker, fumbling, fundamentalist, gamin, gamine,
   garron, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gigantic, gluttonous, goat,
   gone to seed, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, graceless, grim,
   gristly, guinde, gusty, guttersnipe, hack, had, halting,
   ham-fisted, ham-handed, hand, hard, hard-core, hardened, hardy,
   harrowing, harsh, haughty, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless,
   hidebound, high, high-priced, ho-hum, hobo, hollow, homeless waif,
   howling, hulking, hulky, human wreck, hurtful, hyperbolic,
   hypertrophied, idler, immoderate, immovable, immutable, implacable,
   impliable, in buckram, inane, incontinent, indomitable,
   industrial worker, inelastic, inelegant, inexcitable, inexorable,
   inflexible, inkhorn, inordinate, insipid, intemperate, intense,
   intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded,
   irreconcilable, jade, jejune, jobber, jobholder, jughead, labored,
   laborer, laboring man, laborious, landloper, lasting,
   late lamented, lazzarone, leaden, leatherlike, leathery, left-hand,
   left-handed, lifeless, loafer, losel, loutish, low-spirited,
   lowlife, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, luxurious, maladroit,
   mannered, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, menial, merciless, migrant,
   miser, moiler, monstrous, mortal remains, mucker, mudlark,
   mummification, mummy, muscle-bound, nag, navvy, no-good,
   not affordable, oafish, obdurate, obstinate, of great cost,
   office temporary, on the downgrade, organic remains, orthodox, out,
   out cold, out of bounds, out of condition, out of shape,
   out of sight, out of training, outrageous, overbig, overcome,
   overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch,
   overpowering, overweening, overwhelming, painful, pale, pallid,
   paralyzed, passed out, pauvre diable, pedantic, pedestrian,
   petrified, piker, pilgarlic, plodding, plug, pointless, pokerlike,
   poky, pompous, ponderous, poor creature, poor devil, potent,
   powerful, premium, pricey, prim, procrustean, proletarian,
   punishing, punitive, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic,
   ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramrodlike, relentless, relics,
   reliquiae, remains, renitent, reserved, resistant, resolute,
   resolved, rich, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, roarer,
   rock-ribbed, rockbound, rodlike, rogue, ropy, rosinante, rough,
   rounder, roustabout, run to seed, rusty, sad case, sad sack,
   salaried worker, scalawag, sea-kindly, seaworthy,
   self-employed person, servant, sesquipedalian, severe, sinewy,
   skeleton, ski bum, skid-row bum, skinflint, slipping, sloppy, slow,
   snobbish, snooty, snug, soft, solemn, solid, solidified, spanking,
   spiritless, standoffish, starch, starched, starchy, stark, staunch,
   steady, steely, steep, sterile, stern, stiff as buckram, stiffened,
   stilted, stodgy, stone-cold, stone-dead, stoned, straightlaced,
   straitlaced, stray, street arab, street urchin, stringy, strong,
   stubborn, stuffy, sumptuous, sundowner, superficial, surf bum,
   swagman, swagsman, tasteless, tatterdemalion, taut, tedious,
   temporary, tenacious, tender, tenement of clay, tennis bum, tense,
   the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one,
   thick, tight, tightwad, tiring, toiler, toilsome, too much, top,
   tormenting, torturous, tough, tough as leather, tramp, truant,
   turgid, turnpiker, unaffected, unalterable, unbearable, unbending,
   unbridled, unchangeable, uncompromising, unconscionable, uncouth,
   under the table, undue, unflexible, unfriendly, ungainly, ungiving,
   ungraceful, unhandy, unlively, unmoved, unpayable, unreasonable,
   unrelaxed, unrelenting, unrestrained, untiring, unwieldy,
   unyielding, uphill, uptight, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vapid,
   vaurien, vigorous, virgate, viscid, wage earner, wage slave,
   wageworker, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, waterproof,
   watertight, weatherly, whistler, wiry, wooden, worker, workgirl,
   workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman,
   worthless fellow, wretch

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