The body
Synonyms for stiff
Synonyms for stiff: remains and rigid. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for stiff
- remainsnoun, in the sense "the dead body of a human being"
- rigidadjective, in the sense "incapable of or resistant to bending"
Two senses of stiff, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
the dead body of a human being
The murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river.
The true synonym
remains
Same sentence, swapped: The murderer confessed that he threw the remains in the river.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for stiff in the sentence quoted.
- roadkill
- blank
- bold
incapable of or resistant to bending
A palace guardsman stiff as a poker.
The true synonym
rigid
Same sentence, swapped: A palace guardsman rigid as a poker.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- smashed
- steady
- tender
Where stiff turns up in the game
stiff is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in 11 other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 11 puzzles where stiff is the trap
- firmadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fast, in the sense "unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause", and stiff is on the board beside it.
- loadedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is laden, in the sense "filled with a great quantity", with stiff sitting one tile away.
- skeletonnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is frame, in the sense "the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape", so stiff is there to be ruled out.
- sternadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is strict, in the sense "severe and unremitting in making demands", and stiff is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play stiff
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stiff reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from the body at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stiff carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.