Difference between Fertile and Stiff

What is the difference between Fertile and Stiff?

Fertile as an adjective is capable of growing abundant crops; productive while Stiff as an adjective is of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.

Fertile

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: capable of growing abundant crops; productive capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful capable of developing past the egg stage productive or prolific

Example sentence: Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Stiff

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.Harsh, severe.Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise.potent.dead, deceasedOf a penis, erect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff or lucky stiff.A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.A cadaver, a dead person.A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.

Example sentence: Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.

We hope you now know whether to use Fertile or Stiff in your sentence.

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