stiff

stɪf

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#1·4h ago

(of a, person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.

“Yes. I believe she has passed quite a stiff exam.”

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#2·4h ago

(of an, object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.

You have discovered the corpse of Captain Willem of the MSV Majesty. His stiff fingers are wrapped tightly around a small datapad.

Origin: From , stiffe, stif, from , from , from , from . See also , , , ; also , stīpō, from which English stevedore. The expected Modern English form would be ; is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·4h ago

(figurative, of, _, policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.

He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine.

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