stīvs

Etymology
Borrowed from, or from 🇨🇬, or from 🇨🇬, all meaning “stiff, firm, immobile, hard, strong” (cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). First mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries, has replaced  in some of its meanings.

Adjective

 * 1)  stiff, hard, numb having lost, partially or totally, the flexibility of motion, because of, e.g., the effects of low temperature
 * 2)  rigid, stiff
 * 3)  stiff, rigid without flexibility, elasticity, softness; not free, pressured; with little or no motion; without expressivity
 * 4)  stiff, rigid, stilted not lively or vibrant, without enthusiasm, artificial; also, clumsy, inefficient
 * 5) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1)  rigid, stiff
 * 2)  stiff, rigid without flexibility, elasticity, softness; not free, pressured; with little or no motion; without expressivity
 * 3)  stiff, rigid, stilted not lively or vibrant, without enthusiasm, artificial; also, clumsy, inefficient
 * 4) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1)  stiff, rigid, stilted not lively or vibrant, without enthusiasm, artificial; also, clumsy, inefficient
 * 2) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1)  stiff, rigid, stilted not lively or vibrant, without enthusiasm, artificial; also, clumsy, inefficient
 * 2) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1)  stiff, rigid, stilted not lively or vibrant, without enthusiasm, artificial; also, clumsy, inefficient
 * 2) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it
 * 1) of fabric, cloth stiff, rigid difficult to ply or fold, usually because of its density, or the pressure on it