| 单词 | stiff |
| 释义 | Word Frequency stiff(stɪf) adjective 1. not easily bent; rigid; inflexible 2. not working or moving easily or smoothly a stiff handle 3. difficult to accept in its severity or harshness a stiff punishment 4. moving with pain or difficulty; not supple a stiff neck 5. difficult; arduous a stiff climb 6. unrelaxed or awkward; formal 7. firmer than liquid in consistency; thick or viscous 8. powerful; strong a stiff breeze a stiff drink 9. excessively high a stiff price 10. nautical (of a sailing vessel) relatively resistant to heeling or rolling Compare tender1 (sense 11) 11. lacking grace or attractiveness 12. stubborn or stubbornly maintained a stiff fight 13. obsolete tightly stretched; taut 14. slang, mainly Australian unlucky 15. slang intoxicated 16. stiff upper lip 17. stiff with noun slang 18. a corpse 19. anything thought to be a loser or a failure; flop adverb 20. completely or utterly bored stiff frozen stiff verb 21. (intransitive) slang to fail the film stiffed 22. (transitive) slang, mainly US to cheat or swindle 23. (transitive) slang to kill Derived forms stiffish (ˈstiffish) adjective stiffly (ˈstiffly) adverb stiffness (ˈstiffness) noun Word origin Old English stīf; related to Old Norse stīfla to dam up, Middle Low German stīf stiff, Latin stīpēs wooden post, stīpāre to press |
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