stiff upper lip | selfestraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief), the British like to keep a stiff upper lip |
cadaver corpse stiff clay remains | the dead body of a human being, 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 |
stiff | an ordinary man, a lucky stiff, a working stiff |
stiff aster Aster linarifolius | wiry tufted perennial of the eastern United States with stiff erect rough stems, linear leaves and large violet flowers |
agueweed ague weed five-flowered gentian stiff gentian Gentianella quinquefolia Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
stiff-backed | having a stiff back, the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling |
stiff-haired | having stiff hair |
stiff-tailed | having a stiff tail |
stiff-branched | having stiff branches |
s besotted blind drunk blotto crocked cockeyed fuddled loaded pie-eyed pissed pixilated plastered slopped sloshed smashed soaked soused sozzled squiffy stiff tight wet | very drunk |
fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud(p) stodgy | (used pejoratively) out of fashion, old fashioned, moss-grown ideas about family life |
rigid stiff | incapable of or resistant to bending, a rigid strip of metal, a table made of rigid plastic, a palace guardsman stiff as a poker, stiff hair, a stiff neck |
starchy stiff buckram | rigidly formal, a starchy manner, the letter was stiff and formal, his prose has a buckram quality |
adult big full-grown fully grown grown grownup | (of animals) fully developed, an adult animal, a grown woman |
stiff | not moving or operating freely, a stiff hinge |
moss-grown mossy | overgrown with moss |
potent strong stiff | having a strong physiological or chemical effect, a potent toxin, potent liquor, a potent cup of tea, a stiff drink |
firm steadfast steady stiff unbendable unfaltering unshakable unwavering | marked by firm determination or resolution, not shakable, firm convictions, a firm mouth, steadfast resolve, a man of unbendable perseverence, unwavering loyalty |
stiff | powerful, a stiff current, a stiff breeze |
stiff-necked | haughtily stubborn, a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin |
stiffly stiff | in a stiff manner, his hands lay stiffly |
stiff | extremely, bored stiff, frightened stiff |