stiff / stɪf /

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stiff4 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

stiff·er, stiff·est.

  1. rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
  2. not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold weather.
  3. not supple; moving with difficulty, as from cold, age, exhaustion, or injury.
n. 名词 noun
  1. Slang. a dead body; corpse.a formal or priggish person.a poor tipper; tightwad.a drunk.
  2. Slang. a fellow: lucky stiff; poor stiff.a tramp; hobo.a laborer.
  3. Slang. a forged check.a promissory note or bill of exchange.a letter or note, especially if secret or smuggled.
  4. Slang. a contestant, especially a racehorse, sure to lose.
adv. 副词 adverb
  1. in or to a firm or rigid state: The wet shirt was frozen stiff.
  2. completely, intensely, or extremely: I'm bored stiff by these lectures.We're scared stiff.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. Slang. to fail or refuse to tip.
  2. Slang. to cheat; swindle; do out of: The company stiffed me out of a week's pay.

stiff 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

hard, inflexible

adj. 形容词 adjective

formal, standoffish

adj. 形容词 adjective

difficult

adj. 形容词 adjective

extreme, severe

stiff构成的短语

  • stiff as a board
  • stiff upper lip
  • bore to death (stiff)
  • keep a stiff upper lip
  • scare out of one's wits (stiff)

更多stiff例句

  1. The new law will require shell companies to provide the names of their owners or face stiff penalties and jail sentences.
  2. Opt to power such skis with a stiffer freetour boot, and you might be able to squeeze out a bit more downhill performance.
  3. The controversy over trigger pointsYou may refer to them as knots, but those tender, stiff, and often painful areas you most likely have on your shoulders, neck, and back are technically known as trigger points.
  4. For the first time, shell companies will be required to provide the names of their owners or face stiff penalties and jail sentences.
  5. Social video platforms’ contest for creatorsIn the same way that Netflix faces its stiffest competition yet in 2021, so does YouTube.
  6. Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
  7. Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry.
  8. FDR wanted to project easy grace rather than stiff formality—especially when communicating complicated matters.
  9. Perhaps, though, it is best that the big awful secret remains hidden from the public, out of Working Stiff and everywhere else.
  10. He is in his late forties; intelligent, people say, but stiff and restrained, an eternal bachelor.
  11. But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
  12. MacRae's heels clicked together and his right hand went up in the stiff military salute.
  13. I kept a stiff backbone for a while, but presently a futile rage against circumstances bubbled up and boiled over.
  14. He braced himself unconsciously, and after Zeal's next words did not relax his body, although his lips turned white and stiff.
  15. If he had cut her, he would have shown less contempt than in that stiff raising of the hat.