Inflexible, rigid, stiff. (Old English only.) Of the neck: = stiff, adj.

Rigid; not flexible or pliant.

Hard, unyielding. Of a material substance: hard to the touch, resistant to pressure, unyielding. Obsolete.

Incapable of being bent; unbendable; not pliant; rigid, stiff.

Stiff, rigid.

Unbendable, inflexible.

Rigid, stiff, hard.

transferred. Unbending, upright. Also of a person: Reserved, haughty. Obsolete.

Not easily bent or changed in shape; stiff, rigid, inflexible. Cf. unpliant, adj. 2.

Of an object, material, etc.: stiff; not pliant or flexible; firm; hard.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Not easily bent or changed in shape; stiff, rigid, inflexible. Cf. unpliable, adj. 2.

Not mercurial, mobile or yielding.

Firm, unyielding, strong, †rigid, stiff (as in death).

Stiff and hard; not pliable or workable.

Not pliable; inflexible.

transferred. Lumpish, stiff, heavy, slow; hence figurative reluctant, unwilling, diffident, tardy. dialect.

Colloquial phrases. stiff as a poker; stiff in the back, firm, resolute; to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip, to be firm, unyielding; hence sti…

Not bending or curving; rigid; esp. of persons, remaining erect, not stooping.

dialect. Unbending, stiff.

transferred and figurative. Applied to anything possessing qualities more or less characteristic of crisp substances. stiff, firm, as opposed to limp.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1b.)

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)