stiffness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
Types & categories
- inelasticity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck
Types & categories
- clumsiness hypernym
Related & opposite
- rigid derivation
Sense 3 noun
firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity
Types & categories
- resoluteness hypernym
Related & opposite
- firm derivation
Sense 4 noun
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Types & categories
- inelegance hypernym
- woodenness hyponym
- gaucherie hyponym
Related & opposite
- ill at easep derivation
- gauche derivation
- inept derivation
- buckram derivation
- ungraceful derivation
Sense 5 noun
excessive sternness
severity of character
Types & categories
- sternness hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigid |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stiff |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelasticity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigid |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clumsiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | firm |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | resoluteness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ill at easep |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | gauche |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inept |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | buckram |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ungraceful |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | inelegance |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | woodenness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | gaucherie |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | abrasive |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | inclement |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | stringent |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigorous |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tough |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | spartan |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | harsh |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | sternness |