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stiff-backed

stiff-backed adjective: obstinate.

Adjective

stiff-backed (comparative more stiff-backed, superlative most stiff-backed)

  1. obstinate
    • Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?1855, John Henry Newman, Callista

Forms of stiff-backed

comparativemore stiff-backed
superlativemost stiff-backed

Questions about stiff-backed

What does stiff-backed mean?
Stiff-backed means obstinate.
What part of speech is stiff-backed?
Stiff-backed is an adjective.

Words near stiff-backed in the dictionary

  1. stiff upper lips
  2. stiff-arm
  3. stiff-armed
  4. stiff-arming
  5. stiff-arms
  6. stiff-backed
  7. stiff-hearted
  8. stiff-leaf goldenrod
  9. stiff-lipped
  10. stiff-necked
  11. stiff-neckedly

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