stiff, hard, numb (having lost, partially or totally, the flexibility of motion, because of, e.g., the effects of low temperature) · rigid, stiff · stiff, rigid (without flexibility, elasticity, softness; not free, pressured; with little or no motion; without expressivity)
çekim: karşılaştırma stīvāks · üstünlük visstīvākais
eş: ciets, stings, stingrs
köken: Borrowed from Middle High German stīf, or from Old Frisian stīf, or from Middle Dutch stijf, all meaning “stiff, firm, immobile, hard, strong” (cf. German steif, English stiff). First mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries, stīvs has replaced stingrs in some of its meanings.