stiffest
Because it is a word with a single syllable, stiffest is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofstiffest
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- (of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Harsh, severe.
Example: "He was eventually caught, and given a stiff fine."
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
Example: "My legs are stiff after climbing that hill yesterday."
- Potent.
Example: "a stiff drink; a stiff dose; a stiff breeze."
- Dead, deceased.
- (of a penis) Erect.
- (of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
Example: "beat the egg whites until they are stiff"
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
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