stiff in WordNet English dictionary

1. very drunk
   besotted  blind drunk  blotto  crocked  cockeyed  fuddled  loaded  pie-eyed  pissed  pixilated  plastered  slopped  sloshed  smashed  soaked  soused  sozzled  squiffy  stiff  tight  wet 
   
2. rigidly formal
   "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
   starchy  stiff  buckram 
   
3. marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
   "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
   firm  steadfast  steady  stiff  unbendable  unfaltering  unshakable  unwavering 
   
4. having a strong physiological or chemical effect
   "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"
   potent  strong  stiff 
   
5. 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"
   rigid  stiff 
   
6. not moving or operating freely
   "a stiff hinge"
   stiff 
   
7. powerful
   "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
   stiff 
   

1. the dead body of a human being
   "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
   cadaver  corpse  stiff  clay  remains 
   
2. an ordinary man
   "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
   stiff 
   

1. in a stiff manner
   "his hands lay stiffly"
   stiffly  stiff  stiffly  stiff 
   
2. extremely
   "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
   stiff  stiff