stickiness, n. adhesiveness, viscosity, tenacity, cohesiveness,
glutinousness.

sticking, n. adhesion, adherence, coherence, cleaving, cohesion,
agglutination.

sticking out. projecting, protruding, prominent.--n. projection,
protrusion, prominence.

stickle, v. contend, altercate, dispute, quibble, scruple, haggle,
higgle, chaffer; trim, prevaricate, shift, palter, play fast and loose.

stickler, n. haggler, higgler, contender.

sticktoitiveness, n. (Colloq.) pertinacity, persistence,
perseverance, diligence, tenacity.

stick up for. (Colloq.) assert and defend, vindicate.

sticky, a. adhesive, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous,
clammy, tenacious.

stiff, a. inflexible, rigid, firm, unbending, inelastic, stark,
impliable, rigorous, unyielding, inductile; strong, violent, forcible,
inopposable; pertinacious, obstinate, tenacious, uncompromising,
incompliant; constrained, formal, starched, affected, unnatural, precise,
prim, ceremonious, prudish, punctilious; cramped, graceless, inelegant;
(Slang) high, immoderate, large. Antonyms: limber, flaccid, limp,
flexible, lithe.

stiff joint. anchylosis.

stiff neck. obstinacy, contumacy, intractability, incompliance,
stubbornness.

stiff-necked, a. obstinate, intractable, perverse, contumacious,
stubborn, obdurate.

stiffness, n. inflexibility, rigidity, firmness; prudery, constraint,
precision, formality; tension. Antonyms: pliability, limpness,
flexibility, flaccidity, ease, relaxation, informality.

stifling, a. close, oppressive, suffocating.

still, a. motionless, unruffled, stagnant, quiescent, inert,
stationary, placid, tranquil; noiseless, inaudible, silent, mum.

still, v. calm, compose, quiet, silence, hush.

still-hunt, n. stalking.

stilted, a. bombastic, pompous, grandiose, highflown, grandiloquent.

stimulant, n. excitant; provocation, stimulus, spur, goad.

stimulate, v. excite, incite, instigate, arouse, provoke, goad, spur.

stimulus, n. incentive; pl. stimuli.

sting, n. aculeus, prick; goad, incitement.

stinginess, n. parsimony, illiberality, penuriousness, closeness,
avarice. Antonyms: liberality, generosity.

stingy, a. parsimonious, illiberal, close, penurious, miserly,
avaricious, close-fisted, sordid, niggardly. Antonyms: liberal,
generous.

stink, n. stench, fetor.

stinking, a. fetid, malodorous, offensive, noisome, ill-smelling.

stinkstone, n. anthraconite, swinestone.

stint, n. limit, restraint, restri