stiff
Từ điển Collocation
stiff adj.
1 difficult to bend/move
VERBS be, feel, lie, look, sit, stand She lay stiff and still beside him. | become, get, go My trousers were getting stiff with mud. My fingers had gone stiff with cold.
ADV. very | a bit, fairly, quite, rather
PREP. with The clothes were stiff with dust and grease.
2 having sore muscles
VERBS be, feel He felt stiff all over. | become, get, go You'll get stiff if you don't have a hot bath. | leave sb, make sb All that digging made me really stiff.
ADV. really, very | all My arm's gone all stiff. | a bit, a little, rather
PREP. from stiff from kneeling
3 strong/severe
VERBS be, seem Their punishment seemed rather stiff.
ADV. very in the face of some very stiff competition | a bit, fairly, quite, rather
4 not friendly or relaxed
VERBS be, look, seem, sound She was aware that her words sounded stiff. | become
ADV. very | a bit, a little, rather, slightly, somewhat His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- an ordinary man
a lucky stiff
a working stiff
- the dead body of a human being; cadaver, corpse, clay, remains
the cadaver was intended for dissection
the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse
the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river
honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay
adj.
- not moving or operating freely
a stiff hinge
- powerful
a stiff current
a stiff breeze
- rigidly formal; starchy, buckram
a starchy manner
the letter was stiff and formal
his prose has a buckram quality
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect; potent, strong
a potent toxin
potent liquor
a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering
firm convictions
a firm mouth
steadfast resolve
a man of unbendable perseverence
unwavering loyalty
- incapable of or resistant to bending; rigid
a rigid strip of metal
a table made of rigid plastic
a palace guardsman stiff as a poker
stiff hair
a stiff neck
- very drunk; 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
adv.
- extremely
bored stiff
frightened stiff
- in a stiff manner; stiffly
his hands lay stiffly
English Idioms Dictionary
person, man You lucky stiff! You won a TV!
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
stiffs|stiffer|stiffest
syn.: difficult firm formal hard inflexible rigid stilted taut tense tight tough unnatural
ant.: limp
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