Antonyms for stiff
stɪfstiff

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1. stiff

   That is severe which is devoid of all softness, mildness, tenderness, indulgence or levity, or (in literature and art) devoid of unnecessary ornament, amplification, or embellishment of any kind; as, a severe style; as said of anything painful, severe signifies such as heavily taxes endurance or resisting power; as, a severe pain, fever, or winter. Rigid signifies primarily stiff, resisting any effort to change its shape; a corpse is said to be rigid in death; hence, in metaphorical sense, a rigid person or character is one that resists all efforts to change the will or course of conduct; a rigid rule or statement is one that admits of no deviation. Rigorous is nearly akin to rigid, but is a stronger word, having reference to action or active qualities, as rigid does to state or character; a rigid rule may be rigorously enforced. Strict (Latin stringo, bind) signifies bound or stretched tight, tense, strenuously exact. Stern unites harshness and authority with strictness or severity; stern, as said even of inanimate objects, suggests something authoritative or forbidding. Austere signifies severely simple or temperate, strict in self-restraint or discipline, and similarly unrelenting toward others. We speak of austere morality, rigid rules, rigorous discipline, stern commands, severe punishment, harsh speech or a harsh voice, hard requirements, strict injunctions, and strict obedience. Strict discipline holds one exactly and unflinchingly to the rule; rigorous discipline punishes severely any infraction of it. The austere character is seldom lovely, but it is always strong and may be grand, commanding, and estimable.

   Antonyms:
   affable, bland, easy, genial, gentle, indulgent, lenient, mild, pliable, soft, sweet, tender, tractable, yielding

   Synonyms:
   austere, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, morose, relentless, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, uncompromising, unmitigated, unrelenting, unyielding

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1. stiff

   Antonyms:
   pliant, flexible, flaccid, yielding, easy, unaffected, genial, affable, unceremonious

   Synonyms:
   unbending, inflexible, rigid, unyielding, unpliant, stroux, stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, constrained, affected, starched, formal, ceremonious, difficult

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1. • Man

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1. stiffnoun

   an ordinary man

   "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"

   Antonyms:
   sober, flexile, informal, mobile, weak, irresolute, flexible

   Synonyms:
   remains, corpse, cadaver, clay

2. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   informal, mobile, sober, flexible, irresolute, weak, flexile

   Synonyms:
   the Great Compromiser, remains, corpse, cadaver, mud, clay

3. stiffadjective

   not moving or operating freely

   "a stiff hinge"

   Antonyms:
   flexible, mobile, sober, informal, flexile, irresolute, weak

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

4. stiffadjective

   powerful

   "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"

   Antonyms:
   weak, sober, flexile, informal, irresolute, flexible, mobile

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

5. starchy, stiff, buckramadjective

   rigidly formal

   "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"

   Antonyms:
   weak, sober, flexible, flexile, informal, mobile, irresolute

   Synonyms:
   wet, unbendable, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, slopped, sloshed, loaded, smashed, squiffy, soused, besotted, cockeyed, unshakable, unfaltering, soaked, steadfast, starchy, sozzled, unwavering, pie-eyed, steady, firm, plastered, strong, blind drunk, pissed, pixilated, blotto, buckram, rigid

6. potent, strong, stiffadjective

   having a strong physiological or chemical effect

   "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

   Antonyms:
   flexile, informal, mobile, sober, flexible, irresolute, weak

   Synonyms:
   slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, inviolable, besotted, solid, secure, buckram, warm, unassailable, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, substantial, powerful, plastered, fuddled, tight, firm, hard, unattackable, soused, soaked, sozzled, virile, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, blotto, unwavering, rigid, impregnable, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, potent, starchy, loaded, wet, steady

7. firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwaveringadjective

   marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

   "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"

   Antonyms:
   informal, flexile, sober, flexible, weak, irresolute, mobile

   Synonyms:
   staunch, slopped, pissed, steadfast, blind drunk, unfaltering, besotted, solid, buckram, blotto, pixilated, cockeyed, truehearted, fast(a), potent, unswerving, fast, fuddled, tight, soused, bulletproof, firm, unassailable, immobile, watertight, level, loyal, sozzled, unfluctuating, squiffy, unbendable, unshakable, soaked, unwavering, crocked, rigid, plastered, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, starchy, loaded, wet, regular, steady

8. rigid, stiffadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   weak, flexile, flexible, mobile, sober, irresolute, informal

   Synonyms:
   slopped, pissed, blind drunk, unfaltering, fixed, besotted, steadfast, buckram, blotto, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, potent, fuddled, tight, firm, inflexible, soused, sozzled, starchy, squiffy, unbendable, plastered, soaked, unshakable, unwavering, rigid, unbending, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, strong, set, loaded, strict, wet, steady

9. besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wetadverb

   very drunk

   Antonyms:
   informal, weak, sober, flexible, irresolute, mobile, flexile

   Synonyms:
   affluent, stringent, rigorous, fuddled, skew-whiff, flush, laughable, ladened, plastered, smashed, steamed, ludicrous, tight, blotto, firm, unbendable, blind drunk, unwavering, impish, roiled, soaked, miffed, loaded, riled, steady, buckram, nasty, strong, pie-eyed, crocked, irritated, cockeyed, derisory, potent, puckish, slopped, wet, close, nonsensical, wealthy, sealed, awry(p), prankish, soused, unshakable, pixilated, wicked, pissed, peeved, askew, sozzled, wonky, mean, implike, miserly, besotted, squiffy, slicked, compressed, idiotic, nettled, laden, stung, taut, arch, ridiculous, starchy, mischievous, steadfast, absurd, preposterous, pissed off, sloshed, rigid, annoyed, moneyed, lopsided, mingy, lactating, unfaltering

10. stiffadverb

    extremely

    "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"

    Antonyms:
    weak, flexible, irresolute, mobile, sober, informal, flexile

    Synonyms:
    stiffly

11. stiffly, stiffadverb

    in a stiff manner

    "his hands lay stiffly"

    Antonyms:
    flexible, sober, flexile, irresolute, mobile, informal, weak

    Synonyms:
    rigidly, bolt, stiffly

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1. stiffadjective

   Antonyms:
   limber, flaccid, limp, flexible, lithe

   Synonyms:
   inflexible, rigid, firm, unbending, inelastic, stark, impliable, rigorous, unyielding, inductile, strong, violent, forcible, inopposable, pertinacious, obstinate, tenacious, uncompromising, incompliant, constrained, formal, starched, affected, unnatural, precise, prim, ceremonious, prudish, punctilious, cramped, graceless, inelegant, (Slang) high, immoderate, large

How to use stiff in a sentence?

1. William Lauretti:

   We're trying to take joints in your spine that have become too stiff and give them back their normal motion again.

2. Angela Kelly:

   I was thinking, ‘Goodness me, I need a gin and tonic.’ So while the queen was under the dryer I said to her, ‘I’m off for a stiff drink because this is so stressful, getting it just right for you.'.

3. Justin Trudeau:

   One of the things we have to remember is China is the second largest economy in the world and continues to grow. We are going to have to – in some circumstances – engage constructively with China like we did around the conference on biodiversity that we hosted with them in Montreal, there’s other places where we’re going to have to be stiff competition to China in terms of market access (and) in terms of investments in the Global South. We need to be able to show that the Western democracies are there to make those investments and they’re as competitive to China.

4. Lindsey Vonn:

   World Cup was OK. I was definitely really stiff out of the start, i've been having some rib problems, my rib's out.

5. Rahul Kariya:

   He was making sound like he was choking on something, his left hand became stiff and his lips quivered.

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