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stiff
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 stiff
An ordinary man.
Roget 841:
weariness,
defatigation†;
lassitude
etc.
(fatigue)
688;
drowsiness
etc.
683.
disgust,
nausea,
loathing,
sickness;
satiety
etc.
869;
taedium vitae
etc.
(dejection)
837;
boredom,
ennui.
wearisomeness,
tediousness
etc.
adj.;
dull work,
tedium,
monotony,
twice-told tale.
bore,
buttonholer,
proser†,
wet blanket;
pill [Slang],
stiff [Slang];
heavy hours,
the enemy"
(time).
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2 stiff
The dead body of a human being:
— The murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river.
synoniemen: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains.
Nederlands: aas, kadaver, kreng, lijk
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 stiff
Not moving or operating freely.
Roget 846:
ugly,
ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad,
ugly as a scarecrow,
ugly as a dead monkey;
plain,
bald
(unadorned)
849;
homely;
ordinary,
unornamental†,
inartistic;
unsightly,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
hard featured,
hard visaged;
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored;
ill-looking;
unprepossessing,
unattractive,
uninviting,
unpleasing.
graceless,
inelegant;
ungraceful,
ungainly,
uncouth,
stiff;
rugged,
rough,
gross,
rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety;
gawky;
lumping,
lumpish†;
lumbering;
hulky†,
hulking;
unwieldy.
squalid,
haggard;
grim,
grim faced,
grim visaged;
grisly,
ghastly;
ghost like,
death like;
cadaverous,
grewsome†,
gruesome.
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding;
repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre;
grody [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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Roget 855:
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum;
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural;
self-conscious;
maniere;
artificial;
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted;
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified;
finical,
finikin;
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
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Roget 878:
dignified;
stately;
proud,
proud-crested;
lordly,
baronial;
lofty-minded;
highsouled,
high-minded,
high-mettled†,
high-handed,
high-plumed,
high-flown,
high-toned.
haughty lofty,
high,
mighty,
swollen,
puffed up,
flushed,
blown;
vainglorious;
purse-proud,
fine;
proud as a peacock,
proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious,
disdainful,
bumptious,
magisterial,
imperious,
high and mighty,
overweening,
consequential;
arrogant
etc.
885;
unblushing
etc.
880.
stiff,
stiff-necked;
starch;
perked stuck-up;
in buckram,
strait-laced;
prim
etc.
(affected)
855.
on one's dignity,
on one's high horses,
on one's tight ropes,
on one's high ropes;
on stilts;
en grand seigneur [Fr.].
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Roget 751:
restrained,
constrained;
imprisoned
etc.
v.;
pent up;
jammed in,
wedged in;
under lock and key,
under restraint,
under hatches;
in swaddling clothes;
on parole;
in custody,
doing time
etc.
(prisoner)
754;
cohibitive†;
coactive
etc.
(compulsory)
744†.
stiff,
restringent†,
strait-laced,
hidebound,
barkbound†.
ice bound,
wind bound,
weather bound;
cabined cribbed confined"
[Macbeth];
in Lob's pound,
laid by the heels.
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Roget 579:
inelegant,
graceless,
ungraceful;
harsh,
abrupt;
dry,
stiff,
cramped,
formal,
guinde [Fr.];
forced,
labored;
artificial,
mannered,
ponderous;
awkward,
uncourtly†,
unpolished;
turgid
etc.
577;
affected,
euphuistic†;
barbarous,
uncouth,
grotesque,
rude,
crude,
halting;
offensive to ears polite.
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Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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2 stiff
3 stiff
Rigidly formal:
— The letter was stiff and formal.
synoniemen: buckram, starchy.
4 stiff
Having a strong physiological or chemical effect:
— A stiff drink.
synoniemen: potent, strong.
5 stiff
Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.
synoniemen: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.
Roget 323:
hard,
rigid,
stubborn,
stiff,
firm;
starch,
starched;
stark,
unbending,
unlimber,
unyielding;
inflexible,
tense;
indurate,
indurated;
gritty,
proof.
adamant,
adamantine,
adamantean†;
concrete,
stony,
granitic,
calculous,
lithic†,
vitreous;
horny,
corneous†;
bony;
osseous,
ossific†;
cartilaginous;
hard as a rock
etc.
n.;
stiff as buckram,
stiff as a poker;
stiff as starch,
stiff as as board.
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Pools: niezachwiany, niewzruszony, niezłomny, nieugięty
6 stiff
Incapable of or resistant to bending:
— A palace guardsman stiff as a poker.
— Stiff hair.
— A stiff neck.
synoniem: rigid.
Roget 739:
severe;
strict,
hard,
harsh,
dour,
rigid,
stiff,
stern,
rigorous,
uncompromising,
exacting,
exigent,
exigeant†,
inexorable,
inflexible,
obdurate,
austere,
hard-headed,
hard-nosed,
hard-shell [U.S.],
relentless,
Spartan,
Draconian,
stringent,
strait-laced,
searching,
unsparing,
iron-handed,
peremptory,
absolute,
positive,
arbitrary,
imperative;
coercive
etc.
744;
tyrannical,
extortionate,
grinding,
withering,
oppressive,
inquisitorial;
inclement
etc.
(ruthless)
914.1;
cruel
etc.
(malevolent)
907;
haughty,
arrogant
etc.
885;
precisian†.
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7 stiff
Very drunk.
synoniemen: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet ... meer laten zien.
bijwoord
1 stiff
2 stiff
In a stiff manner:
— His hands lay stiffly.
synoniem: stiffly.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: 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 ... meer laten zien.
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