stiff

Meanings

• an ordinary man
  • "a lucky stiff"
  • "a working stiff"
• the dead body of a human being
  • "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"
• not moving or operating freely
  • "a stiff hinge"
• powerful
  • "a stiff current"
  • "a stiff breeze"
• rigidly formal
  • "the letter was stiff and formal"
• having a strong physiological or chemical effect; ; ; ,
  • "a stiff drink"
• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
• incapable of or resistant to bending
  • "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
  • "stiff hair"
  • "a stiff neck"
• very drunk
• extremely
  • "bored stiff"
  • "frightened stiff"
• in a stiff manner
  • "his hands lay stiffly"

Synonyms

besotted, blind drunk, blotto, buckram, cadaver, clay, cockeyed, corpse, crocked, firm, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potent, remains, rigid, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiffly, strong, tight, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wet