Crossword clues for stiffest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid a["e]rial sky.
--Milton. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
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Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument.
--Jer. Taylor.A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws.
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Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
The French are open, familiar, and talkative; the Italians stiff, ceremonious, and reserved.
--Addison. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear. [Obs. or Colloq.] ``This is stiff news.''
--Shak.(Naut.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
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Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. [Slang]
Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be moved without difficulty and pain.
Syn: Rigid; inflexible; strong; hardly; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; harsh; formal; constrained; affected; starched; rigorous.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: stiff) Most rigid, most inflexible, most unbending.
Usage examples of "stiffest".
It was the thinnest, stiffest, flattest, shiniest playing card Joe had ever handled.
When it is broken up, therefore, particles of soil are so separated that they tend to fall apart, hence the soil is always made more or less friable, even when it consists of the stiffest clays.
It will also grow well on the stiffest clays, whether white or red, when moisture is present.
With Miss Carew was her maid, Margaret, a middleaged New England woman, attired in the stiffest and most correct of maid-uniforms.
Six of the stiffest sorties in the worst of weather till three in the afternoon.
Corton drawled as he reached them, making the most perfunctory of bows to Lady Ashton and Lallie, and nothing more than the stiffest of nods to Alex.
In the winter the winds are stiffest and blow most, so these trees whisper, chatter, sob, laugh, and at times roar until the sound is deafening.
The stiffest resistance came from the last one, where the entrenched miners fought with explosives and old excavating machines.
Skagas and the guerrillas have just gotten the stiffest jolt of the war.
By very heedful management, when the ship drew nigh, the whale was transferred to her side, and was strongly secured there by the stiffest fluke-chains, for it was plain that unless artificially upheld, the body would at once sink to the bottom.
A fraud like that calls for the stiffest sentence a summary court can give, which is a BCD.
And now, as Gerald, almost free of the hearthrugs, broke his thumb-nail on the stiffest blade of his knife, a thick rustling and a sharp, heavy stumping sounded beyond the curtain.
And all this day he had whipped his stronger comrades into venturing a thousand miles of the stiffest hardship man can conceive.
Daniel Swift had one more surprise in store for him that day, and it was the stiffest of them all.
But it seems necessary, at the very outset, to call attention to this, lest at any time it should be argued that, after all, the Salvationist life is no better, in our opinion, than the stiffest and most formal specimen of Christianity.