Stiffness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIFFNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being stiff
• inability to move easily and without pain
• the quality of being firm and difficult to bend or move
• the quality of not being relaxed or friendly
• the quality of being severe or strong
• The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
• the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
• the property of moving with pain or difficulty
• firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
• excessive sternness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not easily bent; rigid; lacking in suppleness or flexibility; impeded in movement —used of a mechanism; drunk 1a

Words related to STIFFNESS

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Words that contain STIFFNESS

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How to use STIFFNESS in a sentence

• By the third day I was on my feet again, with only the stiffness of healing wounds to remind me of those desperate passages.
• His face, hands, and arms were the color of oak, and he moved with a stiffness that suggested wooden joints.
• Hither resorted those who did not wish to be bound by the stiffness of the court.
• It was a very gratifying revelation of his own possibilities, in spite of the stiffness of his arm.
• With many injunctions to conduct myself with proper stiffness, I started early on Monday morning.
• Am ashamed to acknowledge I have felt a little impatience, because my hands through stiffness, occasioned by cramp, have refused to perform their ordinary duty.
• Deprived of this sensible and well-disposed intermediary, the Genevese stiffness and the Provencal ardor were not likely to hit it off.
• If we put up a statue of Dickens in Portland Place to-morrow we should feel the stiffness as unnatural.
• Then all at once the smile was struck from her lips, the stiffness of her poise suddenly relaxed.
• There was no saluting of officers, no stiffness, no starch anywhere.
• The machine goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working of it, and it has lost a little of its force.
• Jean was more accustomed now to the trail, and the stiffness of the first two days had worn away.
• There was a grievous stiffness creeping over his arms and shoulders, an ache in his ribs, as his heated body began to cool.
• We would then sit down on the parched grass and feel the stiffness of our limbs and the burning in our flushed faces.
• The stiffness and glare of the red cloth in which the room was furnished, contrasted with the soft colour of the tapestry which covered one wall.
• The stiffness and self-consciousness of the Germans is really a sign of their lack of confidence in themselves.
• I had long got over my stiffness, and now that the sun was shining brightly I began to feel more confident than ever that all was going well.
• CHAPTER IX THROAT STIFFNESS What is the most frequent obstacle to good singing, the difficulty with which pupil and teacher most contend? Throat stiffness.
• He was long-bodied and very long-limbed, and having been brought up in camp, his motion had all the stiffness of the marching step.
• Presently the small girl shook the covering away from her and stood up, to yawn and stretch herself out of the stiffness from a night spent on the hard floor.
• This, I think, has added a little rheumatism to give name to the pain and stiffness of joints and newly forming muscles.
• It has all the stiffness and coldness of the Byzantine manner.
• This change should be effected without tension or stiffness.
• Next she lay upon a couch in an inner chamber, the commander, in his blue-and-gold-braid stiffness bending over her, gravely anxious.
• Odd the Foundling-skald fared also with them, and by then was gotten healed of the stiffness he gained at the horse-fight.
• The manners observed are devoid of any stiffness of etiquette, but rather marked with a cordial decorum approaching intimacy, most assuring to the simplest and humblest visitor.
• If this condition arises it is proof that there is stiffness, that relaxation has not taken place.

Similar words containing STIFFNES without suffix s

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