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Synonyms for stiff

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for stiff

not changing shape or bending

stretched tightly

so rigidly constrained, formal, or awkward as to lack all grace and spontaneity

indicating or possessing determination, resolution, or persistence

having a high concentration of the distinguishing ingredient

vastly exceeding a normal limit, as in cost

the physical frame of a dead person or animal

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an ordinary man

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not moving or operating freely

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powerful

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rigidly formal

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having a strong physiological or chemical effect

marked by firm determination or resolution

incapable of or resistant to bending

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in a stiff manner

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She arose, and bowing her stiff, lofty bow, she went away, stopping for neither, thanks nor applause.
But instead of being greeted with pleasure as she had expected, at his first glance at her his face assumed a cold, stiff, proud expression she had not seen on it before.
"The chill nights rendered me stiff and motionless, for I wore no clothing, but each morning the warm rays of the sun gave me new life and restored me to activity.
There is a rustling of stiff silks; a tread of backward and forward footsteps to and fro across the chamber.
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
Strange, stiff garments were upon my body; garments that cracked and powdered away from me as I rose to a sitting posture.
Then cold The shades of night o'erwhelm them; to the knee In snow, beards stiff with ice.