- 7. Strong, fresh.
Stiff-necked, a. Stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, dogged, mulish, headstrong, contumacious, crossgrained, unruly, intractable.
Stiffness, n.
- 1. Rigidity, inflexibility, rigidness, rigor, hardness, starkness.
- 2. Thickness, spissitude, density, compactness, denseness, consistence.
- 3. Stubbornness, obstinacy, pertinacity, contumaciousness, inflexibility.
- 4. Severity, rigor, strictness, harshness, rigorousness, austerity, sternness.
- 5. Formality, precision, constraint, primness, frigidity.
- 6. Tension, tenseness.
- 7. Torpidness, torpor, rigidity.
Stifle, v. a.
- 1. Smother, choke, suffocate.
- 2. Suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench.
- 3. Still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag, conceal, smother.
Stigma, n.
- 1. Mark (made with a hot iron), brand.
- 2. Stain, blot, disgrace, reproach, dishonor, shame, spot, blur, brand, tarnish, taint.
Stigmatize, v. a.
- 1. Brand, mark with a hot iron.
- 2. Disgrace, reproach, dishonor, vilify, defame, discredit, brand, post, slur, hold up to shame.
- 3. Denounce, accuse, brand.