stiff
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4.1
- adjective
- /stɪf/
:
fuerte
- After a long week at work, I decided to enjoy a good stiff drink to relax.
- stiff competition
- a stiff wind
All right, so we're back, get a stiff drink, numb it out a little bit.
- All right, so we're back, get a stiff drink, numb it out a little bit.
- As the Koreans feared, Mongol demands were stiff.
- And I mean meaningful penalties, really stiff fines, lifetime no fly stipulations, long term loss of a driver's license, in some cases imprisonment.
Examples
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Yesterday, the president announced stiff sanctions on Russia.
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She was doing 12 knots an hour in a stiff breeze.
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Everybody can appreciate a nice drink, nice stiff drink and a glass.
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We'll have a nice stiff drink.
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What you need is a good stiff drink.
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Charlotte, I made us a nice stiff drink!
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Nothing on your back but a stiff ocean breeze.
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I'm gonna need a stiff drink and some clothes that fit.
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I wish I could just drown every last sorrow in a good, stiff drink.
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A lone sailboat beat into the stiff wind, rounding the oil island, coming home before darkness fell.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Very concentrated in taste or effect
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1.8
Very strong or forceful, like a heavy blow
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5.5
A substance that has a strong effect even in small amounts
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3.4
A wind that blows in sudden strong bursts
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant with upright rough stems, narrow leaves, and large purple flowers that lives for many years
- Specialized
A plant with clusters of small bristly blue flowers native to eastern North America
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
A stiff wind or a stiff drink uses the old sense of 'strong' from stif; a stiff drink hits you hard and a stiff breeze blows with power. So stiff here means 'forceful' or 'strong'.