" stiff "

1: incapable of or highly resistant to bending;

  * e.g., " ... use a stiff piece of paper for the project "

•  Synonyms : 

•  inflexible,

•  rigid,

•  stiffened,

•  unyielding

•  Antonyms : 

•  flexible,

•  floppy,

•  pliable,

•  pliant,

•  supple,

•  yielding

2: difficult to endure;

  * e.g., " ... stiff winds "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bitter,

•  brutal,

•  burdensome,

•  cruel,

•  excruciating,

•  grievous,

•  grim,

•  hard,

•  hardhanded,

•  harsh,

•  heavy,

•  inhuman,

•  murderous,

•  onerous,

•  oppressive,

•  rough,

•  rugged,

•  searing,

•  severe,

•  tough,

•  trying

•  Antonyms : 

•  easy,

•  light,

•  soft

3: going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount;

  * e.g., " ... don't you think that's a pretty stiff fine for such a minor infraction? "

•  Synonyms : 

•  baroque,

•  devilish,

•  excessive,

•  exorbitant,

•  extravagant,

•  extreme,

•  fancy,

•  immoderate,

•  inordinate,

•  insane,

•  intolerable,

•  lavish,

•  over-the-top,

•  overdue,

•  overextravagant,

•  overmuch,

•  overweening,

•  plethoric,

•  steep,

•  towering,

•  unconscionable,

•  undue,

•  unmerciful

•  Antonyms : 

•  middling,

•  moderate,

•  modest,

•  reasonable,

•  temperate

1: having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude;

  * e.g., " ... he was too stiff-necked to admit that underlings might have useful ideas "

•  Synonyms : 

•  arrogant,

•  assumptive,

•  bumptious,

•  cavalier,

•  chesty,

•  haughty,

•  high-and-mighty,

•  high-handed,

•  high-hat,

•  highfalutin,

•  huffish,

•  huffy,

•  imperious,

•  important,

•  lofty,

•  lordly,

•  masterful,

•  overweening,

•  peremptory,

•  pompous,

•  presuming,

•  presumptuous,

•  pretentious,

•  self-asserting,

•  self-assertive,

•  sniffy,

•  supercilious,

•  superior,

•  toplofty,

•  uppish,

•  uppity

•  Antonyms : 

•  humble,

•  lowly,

•  modest,

•  unarrogant,

•  unpretentious

2: marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details;

  * e.g., " ... her dinner parties are typically stiff-necked affairs, more to be endured than enjoyed "

•  Synonyms : 

•  ceremonious,

•  correct,

•  decorous,

•  formal,

•  nice,

•  proper,

•  punctilious,

•  starchy,

•  stiff,

•  stilted

•  Antonyms : 

•  casual,

•  easygoing,

•  informal,

•  laid-back,

•  unceremonious

3: sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion;

  * e.g., " ... obviously uninterested in hearing any excuses, the stiff-necked officer handed me my speeding ticket with a flourish "

•  Synonyms : 

•  adamant,

•  adamantine,

•  bullheaded,

•  dogged,

•  hard,

•  hard-nosed,

•  hardened,

•  hardheaded,

•  headstrong,

•  immovable,

•  implacable,

•  inconvincible,

•  inflexible,

•  intransigent,

•  mulish,

•  obdurate,

•  obstinate,

•  opinionated,

•  ossified,

•  pat,

•  pertinacious,

•  perverse,

•  pigheaded,

•  self-opinionated,

•  self-willed,

•  stubborn,

•  unbending,

•  uncompromising,

•  unrelenting,

•  unyielding,

•  willful

•  Antonyms : 

•  acquiescent,

•  agreeable,

•  amenable,

•  compliant,

•  complying,

•  flexible,

•  pliable,

•  pliant,

•  relenting,

•  yielding

1: to deliberately ignore or treat rudely;

  * e.g., " ... the actress has a reputation for stiffing the press at red-carpet events "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cold-shoulder,

•  cut,

•  high-hat,

•  slight,

•  snub,

•  stiff-arm

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: to rob by the use of trickery or threats;

  * e.g., " ... customers who were too embarrassed to admit that they had been stiffed by an Internet company claiming to sell designer handbags "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beat,

•  bilk,

•  bleed,

•  cheat,

•  chisel,

•  chouse,

•  con,

•  cozen,

•  defraud,

•  diddle,

•  do,

•  do in,

•  euchre,

•  fiddle,

•  fleece,

•  flimflam,

•  gaff,

•  hose,

•  hustle,

•  mulct,

•  nobble,

•  pluck,

•  ream,

•  rip off,

•  rook,

•  screw,

•  shake down,

•  short,

•  shortchange,

•  skin,

•  skunk,

•  squeeze,

•  stick,

•  sting,

•  sucker,

•  swindle,

•  thimblerig,

•  victimize

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to deliberately ignore or treat rudely;

  * e.g., " ... in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cold-shoulder,

•  cut,

•  high-hat,

•  slight,

•  snub,

•  stiff

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to deliberately ignore or treat rudely;

  * e.g., " ... in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cold-shouldered,

•  cut,

•  high-hatted,

•  slighted,

•  snubbed,

•  stiffed

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to deliberately ignore or treat rudely;

  * e.g., " ... in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cold-shoulders,

•  cuts,

•  high-hats,

•  slights,

•  snubs,

•  stiffs

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to deliberately ignore or treat rudely;

  * e.g., " ... in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cold-shouldering,

•  cutting,

•  high-hatting,

•  slighting,

•  snubbing,

•  stiffing

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a dead body;

  * e.g., " ... to the mortician, a stiff was a stiff and they were all pretty much alike "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bones,

•  cadaver,

•  carcass,

•  corpse,

•  corpus,

•  corse,

•  relics,

•  remains

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: a member of the human race;

  * e.g., " ... one lucky stiff will get the biggest jackpot in the lottery's history "

•  Synonyms : 

•  baby,

•  being,

•  bird,

•  bod,

•  body,

•  character,

•  cookie,

•  creature,

•  customer,

•  devil,

•  duck,

•  egg,

•  face,

•  fish,

•  guy,

•  head,

•  human,

•  human being,

•  individual,

•  life,

•  man,

•  mortal,

•  party,

•  person,

•  personage,

•  scout,

•  slob,

•  sort,

•  soul,

•  specimen,

•  thing,

•  wight

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living;

  * e.g., " ... upon graduation from college he wandered around the country as a bindle stiff, naively believing that he was at one with the downtrodden "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bum,

•  bummer,

•  hobo,

•  sundowner,

•  swaggie,

•  swagman,

•  tramp,

•  vagabond,

•  vagrant

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)