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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Stiff \Stiff\, a. [Compar. {Stiffer}; superl. {Stiffest}.] [OE.
stif, AS. st[=i]f; akin to D. stijf, G. steif, Dan. stiv, Sw.
styf, Icel. st[=i]fr, Lith. stipti to be stiff; cf. L. stipes
a post, trunk of a tree, stipare to press, compress. Cf.
{Costive}, {Stifle}, {Stipulate}, {Stive} to stuff.]
1. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid
a["e]rial sky. --Milton.
2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;
neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
3. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff
gale or breeze.
4. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate;
pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
--Jer. Taylor.
A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to
defend their hospitable laws. --Dryden.
5. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;
starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the
Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.
--Addison.
6. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or
Colloq.] ``This is stiff news.'' --Shak.
7. (Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much;
as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to {crank}. --Totten.
8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff
charge; a stiff price. [Slang]
{Stiff neck}, a condition of the neck such that the head can
not be moved without difficulty and pain.
Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate;
pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected;
starched; rigorous.
資料來源 : WordNet®
stiff
adj 1: lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff
joints"; "stiff hairs"
2: not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
3: powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff
drink"
4: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff
and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: {starchy},
{buckram}]
5: hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff
exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
[syn: {uphill}]
6: of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an
uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar" [syn: {stand-up}]
7: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of
metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace
guardsman stiff as a poker" [syn: {rigid}]
8: very drunk [syn: {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}]
stiff
n 1: an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
2: the dead body of a human being [syn: {cadaver}, {corpse}, {clay},
{remains}]
stiff
adv 1: extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
2: in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly" [syn: {stiffly}]