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stiff as a board

ADJECTIVE
stiff
Synonyms
STRONGEST
arthritic creaky rigid solid stark tense thick tight wooden
STRONG
brittle buckram firm refractory rheumatic set
WEAK
annealed benumbed cemented chilled congealed contracted fixed frozen graceless hardened immalleable impliable incompliant indurate inelastic jelled mechanical numbed ossified petrified resistant solidified starched starchy steely stony taut thickened unbending unflexible ungraceful unsupple unyielding
Antonyms
STRONGEST
bending flexible loose pliable slack soft
STRONG
indefinite supple
WEAK
pliant

Example Sentences

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Unmoving and stiff as a board, she appeared to be deceased.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 10, 2023

She was as stiff as a board and never once on the beat during that number, and no amount of professional dancers could hide that.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2016

"Hopefully it's nothing serious but he's not quite sure – he'll either wake up and there'll be nothing there or he'll be as stiff as a board," said Moores.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2012

My hair was stiff as a board and Mom had to wash it out.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2010

His whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then fell flat on his face, stiff as a board.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling