stiff

Adjective

• very drunk

• 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
    

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  • firm convictions
    
  • a firm mouth
    
  • steadfast resolve
    
  • a man of unbendable perseverence
    
  • unwavering loyalty
    

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect
  • a potent toxin
    
  • potent liquor
    
  • a potent cup of tea, a stiff drink
    

• rigidly formal
  • a starchy manner
    
  • the letter was stiff and formal
    
  • his prose has a buckram quality
    

• powerful
  • a stiff current
    
  • a stiff breeze
    

• not moving or operating freely
  • a stiff hinge
    

Adverb

• in a stiff manner
  • his hands lay stiffly
    

• extremely
  • bored stiff
    
  • frightened stiff
    

Noun

• 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
    

• an ordinary man
  • a lucky stiff
    
  • a working stiff
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  besotted , blind drunk , blotto , crocked , cockeyed , fuddled , loaded , pie-eyed , pissed , pixilated , plastered , slopped , sloshed , smashed , soaked , rigid , firm , steadfast , steady , unbendable , unfaltering , unshakable , unwavering , potent , strong , starchy , buckram , stiffly , cadaver , corpse , cl