Word Type

Adjective

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adverb

Proper Noun

Adverb

The word "stiff" can be used as adjective, noun, adjective, verb, adverb, proper noun and adverb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

funeral

Derived Terms

Stiff Street bindle stiff bored stiff diabetic stiff hand syndrome do a bit of stiff frozen stiff lucky stiff mission stiff scared stiff stiff 'un stiff as a board stiff as a poker stiff cheddar stiff man syndrome stiff neck stiff peak stiff peaks stiff person syndrome stiff porridge stiff shit stiff sickness stiff skin syndrome stiff up stiff upper lip stiff-arm stiff-backed stiff-hearted stiff-leaf goldenrod stiff-lipped stiff-necked stiff-person syndrome stiff-tailed duck stiffy working stiff

Etymologically Related To

stevedore

Context

blackjack culinary math muscles or parts of body object penis person policies and rules and their application and enforcement slang us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

adult male body dead body man

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

flaccid starch starched

Type Of (IsA)

man

Related Terms

bindlestiff

Related Terms

bindlestiff cadaver dead deceased depart equation erect explicitly formal hard hand harsh hastily implicitly inflexible mark owe painful pigeon potent rigid severe swindle unaccustomed

Similar Terms

drunk effective effectual efficacious equipotent fertile formal gone immobile immobile inebriated inflexible intoxicated multipotent powerful resolute ripped strong strong

Synonym Network

blind drunk buckram cadaver canned inflexible potent rigid stiffly unfaltering

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.