stiffness

US pronunciation

American soundstiffness

stiffness

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

stif - fness -> stiffness

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

stiff /stÇf/ adj (-er,-est )

၁။ တောင့်သော။ မာသော။ မာခေါက်ခေါက် ဖြစ်သော။ stiff cardboard ❍ a stiff drawer (ie one that sticks) ❍ a stiff pair of shoes ❍ have a stiff neck (ie one that is painful and difficult to move) ❍ feel stiff (ie have stiff muscles and joints) after a long walk.
၂။ ပျစ်သော။ a stiff dough ❍ Whisk the egg whites until stiff.
၃။ (က) ခက်ခဲသော။ a stiff climb/ exam.
(ခ) ပြင်းထန်သော။ ကြီးလေး သော။ face stiff opposition/ competition ❍ The judge imposed a stiff sentence.
၄။ ဟက်ဟက်ပက်ပက်မရှိသော။ ဟန်ကြီးပန်ကြီး နိုင်သော။ They received a rather stiff welcome.
၅။ (infml ) တနင့်တပိုး။ pay a stiff membership fee.
၆။ တသုန်သုန်၊ တသုတ်သုတ် တိုက်သော။ a stiff breeze.
၇။ ပြင်းသော။ That was a shock — I need a stiff drink!
adv (infml ) အလွန်။ အလွန်အမင်း။ worried/ scared/ frozen stiff ❍ The opera bored me stiff.
n (sl ) လူသေကောင်။ အလောင်းကောင်။
❏ stiffly adv တောင့်တောင့်။ မာဆတ်ဆတ်။ stand/ walk stiffly ❍ ‘No, thank you,’ he said stiffly. stiffness n [U]
❏ stiff-necked adj (fml derog ) ခေါင်းမာသော။
❏ (keep) a stiff upper lip [IDM ] ဣနြေ္ဒမပျက် (နေသည်)။

More examples

Her fingers were getting stiff.
[feel stiff] : My leg muscles always feel stiff after a long bike ride.
[stiff neck/back etc] : She was suffering from a stiff neck.
The drawer was rather stiff, so I pulled at it.
The hinges of the box were stiff with lack of use.
A stiff piece of card
A small stiff brush
[stiff as a board] : The washing on the line was frozen and stiff as a board.
[stiff paste/dough] : Beat in the icing sugar to make a stiff paste.
[beat/whisk something until stiff] : Whisk the egg whites until stiff.
Her tone was a little stiff, I thought.
[stiff with] : His face was stiff with disapproval.
[stiff and awkward] : He looked stiff and awkward in his new suit.
[stiff competition] : Jarvis is up against some stiff competition in this race.
[stiff opposition/resistance] : The government forces met with stiff resistance in the north.
[stiff fine/penalty/sentence] : Those caught breaking the new law face stiff fines.

Synonyms

rigid, firm, inflexible, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, solid, unyielding, aching, aloof, angular, annealed, arduous, arthritic, artificial, austere, beat around bush, beat around the bush, beating around the bush, benumbed, bod, body, brisk, brittle, buckram, bunco, caboodle, cadaver, carcass, cemented, ceremonious, cheat, chill to the bone, chilled, chilled to the bone, cold, congealed, constrained, contracted, corpse, creaky, cribbing, cruel, curdle the blood, dead body, default, demanding, deprive, difficult, disburb, discriminate against, discriminated against, do a number on, do number on, double cross, double deal, double dealing, double-deal, doublecross, drastic, exact, exacting, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fast talk, fatiguing, fixed, forced, formal, formidable, frighten, frozen, give bum steer, goner, graceless, great, guy, hardened, hardheaded, harsh, have for, have it in for, headstrong, heavy, hosing, immalleable, immoderate, impliable, incompliant, individual, indurate, inelastic, inexorable, inordinate, intense, intractable, jelled, jerk around, labored, laborious, leave town, make blood run cold, make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, make teeth chatter, mannered, mechanical, meet under arch, numbed, obstinate, oppressive, ossified, painful, person, pertinacious, petrified, pigeon, pitiless, pompous, potent, powerful, priggish, prim, pull a fast one, pull fast one, pull one's leg, pulling one's leg, punctilious, put on the cuff, put one over on, ratting, refractory, relentless, resistant, rheumatic, rigorous, robust, rope in, run a game on, run out on, running out on, sandbag, scammed, scare away, scare off, scare the daylights out of, scare to death, scared to death, scarify, see in the alley, sell a bill of goods, set, severe, shafting, sharp, shortchange, shorts

Antonyms

bending, calm, casual, easy, easy-going, facile, flexible, gentle, graceful, inactive, indefinite, indistinct, inexact, informal, kind, lenient, limp, loose, low, mild, moderate, nice, normal, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, slow, soft, supple, tolerant, uncertain, weak, yielding