Adjective: stiff-necked
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more stiff-necked |
| Superlative | most stiff-necked |
Sample Sentences
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For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 33:5:]
Adjectives inflected like stiff-necked
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From stiff + neck + -ed.
2. (figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc. See: Swedish Adjectives '
styvnackad', German Adjectives '
halsstarrig'.
Verbs referencing "stiff-necked"
Swedish Adjectives
styvnackad.