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STIFF

Definition:

[adverb] extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
[adverb] in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
Synonyms: ly
[noun] an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
[noun] the dead body of a human being
Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, clay, remains
[adjective] lacking ease in bending; not limber; "a stiff neck"; "stiff joints"; "stiff hairs"
[adjective] not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
[adjective] powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink"
[adjective] rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
Synonyms: starchy, buckram
[adjective] hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
Synonyms: uphill
[adjective] of a collar; standing up rather than folded down; "an uncomfortable standup collar"; "a stiff collar"
Synonyms: stand-up
[adjective] incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"
Synonyms: rigid
[adjective] very drunk
Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet