STIFF Synonyms

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• having strength or power greater than average or expected

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• not faint or feeble

• having or wielding force or authority

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• freshly made or left

• strong and sure

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• without flaws or loopholes

• severely simple

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

• practicing great self-denial

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• property consisting of houses and land

• not able or intended to be moved

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

• resistant to guidance or discipline

• persist stubbornly

• of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous

• entirely of one substance with no holes inside

• matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure

• the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

• a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume

• characterized by good substantial quality

• of one substance or character throughout

• uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks

• providing abundant nourishment

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• having length, breadth and thickness

• impenetrable for the eye

• financially dependable

• of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial

• meriting respect or esteem

• of the same color throughout

• acting together as a single undiversified whole

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

• not responding to treatment

• not making concessions

• having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

• substantially made or constructed

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• punishingly harsh

• never-ceasing

• going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside

• firm and dependable especially in loyalty

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• very drunk