Word Meanings - STIFF-NECKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.

Related words: (words related to STIFF-NECKED)

• NECKING
  See NECKMOLD
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
  A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.
• STIFF
  Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• NECKED
  Cracked; -- said of a treenail. (more info) 1. Having a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff- necked.
• STIFFTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• OBSTINATE
  a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
• STIFFISH
  Somewhat stiff.
• STIFFNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
• NECKAR NUT
  See NUT
• NECKPLATE
  See 2
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• STIFF-NECKED
  Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9.
• CONTUMACIOUS
  Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone. Syn. -- Stubborn; obstinate; obdurate; disobedient; perverse; unyielding; headstrong. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ly, adv. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ness, n. (more info) 1. Exhibiting
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• SANDNECKER
  A European flounder ; -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• KNECK
  The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• VOLCANIC NECK
  A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.