Word Meanings - STIFFNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STIFFNESS)

• Inconcinnity
• Inelegance
• stiffness
• barbarism
• slang
• euphuism
• cacophony
• Tension
• Stretch
• strain
• intentness
• tightness
• force
• tone
• effort

Related words: (words related to STIFFNESS)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• INCONCINNITY
  Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• INTENTNESS
  The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• STIFFNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• SLANGOUS
  Slangy. John Bee.
• TIGHTNESS
  The quality or condition of being tight.
• EFFORT
  A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine. Syn. -- Endeavor; exertion; struggle; strain; straining; attempt; trial; essay. See Attempt. (more info) 1. An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental,
• SLANGY
  Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
• STRETCH
  OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• FORCELESS
  Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• PROTENSION
  A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• PORTENSION
  The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• COEXTENSION
  The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• INEXTENSION
  Want of extension; unextended state.
• OBTENSION
  The act of obtending. Johnson.