stiff

lacking ease in bending; not limber

• “a stiff neck”
• “stiff joints”
• “stiff hairs”

not moving or operating freely

• “a stiff hinge”

powerful

• “a stiff current”
• “a stiff breeze”
• “a stiff drink”

rigidly formal

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

hard to overcome or surmount

• “a stiff hike”
• “a stiff exam”
• “an uphill battle against a popular incumbant”

of a collar; standing up rather than folded down

• “an uncomfortable standup collar”
• “a stiff collar”

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”

very drunk

an ordinary man

• “a lucky stiff”
• “a working stiff”

the dead body of a human being

extremely

• “bored stiff”
• “frightened stiff”

in a stiff manner

• “his hands lay stiffly”