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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: stiff (0.01084 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to stiff.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: stiff kaku
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: stiff buntang, genjur, kaku, kencang, mayat, pegal, pekat, tegar
English → English (WordNet) Definition: stiff 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Stiff 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. [1913 Webster] [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid a["e]rial sky. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff. [1913 Webster] 3. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze. [1913 Webster] 4. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary. [1913 Webster] It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style. [1913 Webster] The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or Colloq.] “This is stiff news.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. (Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. --Totten. [1913 Webster] 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be moved without difficulty and pain. [1913 Webster] Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected; starched; rigorous. [1913 Webster]

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