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severe - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others.
- adjective Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles.
- adjective Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance.
- adjective Extremely plain in substance or style.
- adjective Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress.
- adjective Very dangerous or harmful; grave or grievous.
- adjective Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serious or earnest in feeling, manner, or appearance; without levity; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
- Very strict in judgment, discipline, or ac tion; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; harsh; rigid; merciless: as, severe criticism; severe punishment.
- Strictly regulated by rule or principle; exactly conforming to a standard; rigidly methodical; hence, in lit., art, etc., avoiding, or not exhibiting or permitting, unnecessary or florid ornament, amplification, or the like; restrained; not luxuriant; always keeping measure; pure in line and form; chaste in conception; subordinated to a high ideal: as, a severe style of writing; the severest style of Greek architecture; the severe school of German music.
- Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme: as, severe pain, anguish, or torture; severe cold; a severe winter.
- Difficult to be endured; trying; critical; rigorous: as, a severe test; a severe examination.
- Synonyms and Harsh, Strict, etc. (see
austere ), unrelenting. - Exact, accurate, unadorned, chaste.
- Cutting, keen, biting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
- adjective Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous.
- adjective Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.
- adjective Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme.
- adjective Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very
bad orintense . - adjective
Strict orharsh . - adjective
Sober ,plain inappearance ,austere .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
- adjective severely simple
- adjective intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- adjective causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- adjective very strong or vigorous
- adjective very bad in degree or extent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin sevērus, serious, strict; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin severus ("severe, serious, grave in demeanor").
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Examples
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I opened up Firefox this evening to a severe weather alert from ForecastFox…which surprised me, given that it’s lovely weather: a bit of clouds, maybe some rain later, but nothing I’d call *severe*!
so that’s a little crazy - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2005
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For example, we've estimated the distribution of a strong ground shaking because it's not always the epicenter, it's distributed along the fault, and we can estimate how much shaking actually occurred, and we estimated that close to three-fourths of a million people experienced vital to extreme shaking with very heavy damage and an additional 2 million people on top of that experienced what we term severe shaking, also expecting heavy damage.
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The phrase "severe reality distortion field" is probably not one you bump into every day.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Posner 2012
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The phrase "severe reality distortion field" is probably not one you bump into every day.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Posner 2012
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He defended government actions, saying they are necessary to avoid what he called a severe disruption to the financial markets.
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It's not what I call severe sickness, but he is coughing and blowing his nose.
the monday of doom xbettylivesx 2008
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They say they will work with what they call severe flaws in the plan to change them during the legislative process.
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That means we could see 20 or more tornadoes, two of which could be what we call severe tornadoes or a very large wind event and that's one of the big things that we're concerned about today, Rob, is that duratio (ph), as we call them or a large-scale wind event that can cause miles and miles of damage.
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Pressure for his resignation has been building since Monday, when a government commission blamed Mr. Olmert for what it called his severe failures during Israel's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas last summer.
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We spoke to one leader yesterday who saw Robertson's remarks and the result of it as what he called a severe blow.
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synonyms (390)
Words with the same meaning
- Draconian
- Herculean
- Siberian
- Spartan
- Spartanic
- abrupt
- absolute
- absolutist
- absolutistic
- abstruse
- acerbic
- acid
- acidulous
- acrid
- acrimonious
- acute
- afflictive
- aggressive
- agonizing
- algid
- aloof
- arbitrary
- arctic
- arduous
- aristocratic
- arrogant
- ascetic
- asperous
- astringent
- atrocious
- austere
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- autocratic
- awful
- badly
- bald
- bare
- basic
- bearish
- beastly
- below zero
- biting
- bitter
- bitterly cold
- bleak
- blistering
- bluff
- blunt
- blustering
- blustery
- boreal
- bossy
- brash
- brisk
- brumal
- brusque
- brutal
- burdensome
- candid
- caustic
- cavalier
- censorious
- chaste
- churlish
- close
- cold
- cold as charity
- cold as death
- cold as ice
- cold as marble
- common
- commonplace
- complex
- constant
- cramping
- crimpy
- crisp
- critical
- crude
- cruel
- crusty
- curt
- cutting
- dangerous
- deep
- delicate
- demanding
- despotic
- dictatorial
- difficile
- difficult
- dire
- direct
- disagreeable
- disciplined
- distressing
- domineering
- double-edged
- dour
- drastic
- dreadful
- dry
- dull
- edged
- effortful
- elementary
- escharotic
- essential
- even
- exact
- exacting
- excessive
- excruciating
- exigent
- exorbitant
- express
- extravagant
- extreme
- faithful
- fastidious
- fatal
- feudal
- fierce
- fine
- flinty
- forbidding
- formidable
- frank
- freezing
- freezing cold
- frigid
- fundamental
- furious
- gelid
- glacial
- glowering
- gnawing
- grave
- gravely
- great
- grievous
- grim
- grinding
- griping
- gruff
- hairy
- hard
- hard-earned
- hard-fought
- hardly
- harrowing
- harsh
- harshly
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- hibernal
- hiemal
- high-handed
- homely
- homespun
- homogeneous
- hostile
- hurtful
- hurting
- hyperborean
- ice-cold
- ice-encrusted
- icelike
- icy
- immoderate
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- incisive
- inclement
- indivisible
- inerrable
- inerrant
- inexorable
- infallible
- inflexible
- inhospitable
- inhuman
- inornate
- intemperate
- intense
- intensely
- intricate
- iron-willed
- irreducible
- irritating
- jawbreaking
- keen
- knotted
- knotty
- laborious
- lean
- lordly
- magisterial
- magistral
- markedly
- masterful
- mathematical
- matter-of-fact
- mean
- merciless
- mere
- meticulous
- micrometrically precise
- microscopic
- modest
- monastic
- monocratic
- monolithic
- mordacious
- mordant
- morose
- mortal
- mortified
- natural
- neat
- nice
- nipping
- nippy
- no picnic
- nose-tickling
- not easy
- numbing
- obdurate
- of a piece
- onerous
- open
- operose
- oppressive
- outrageous
- overbearing
- overruling
- painful
- painfully
- painstaking
- paroxysmal
- penetrating
- peremptory
- piercing
- pinching
- pinpoint
- piquant
- pitiless
- plain
- plain-speaking
- plain-spoken
- poignant
- precise
- primal
- primary
- primitive
- prosaic
- prosing
- prosy
- pungent
- punishing
- punitive
- pure
- pure and simple
- racking
- raw
- refined
- relentless
- religious
- religiously exact
- repressive
- restrictive
- rigid
- rigorous
- rigorously
- rough
- roughly
- rugged
- rustic
- ruthless
- sarcastic
- satirical
- savage
- scathing
- scientific
- scientifically exact
- sedate
- self-disciplined
- serious
- set with thorns
- severe
- severely
- sharp
- shooting
- short
- simon-pure
- simple
- simple-speaking
- single
- sleety
- slushy
- smart
- snappy
- snippy
- sober
- sore
- sour
- spare
- sparse
- spasmatic
- spasmic
- spasmodic
- spiny
- splitting
- square
- stabbing
- stark
- steep
- stern
- stiff
- stinging
- stone-cold
- stony
- stormy
- straightforward
- strait-laced
- strenuous
- strict
- strident
- stringent
- subtle
- subzero
- supercooled
- suppressive
- surly
- tart
- taxing
- terminal
- thorny
- ticklish
- toilsome
- tormenting
- torturous
- tough
- trenchant
- tricky
- truculent
- turbulent
- tyrannical
- tyrannous
- unadorned
- unaffected
- unbending
- uncluttered
- uncompromising
- unconscionable
- undecorated
- undeviating
- undifferenced
- undifferentiated
- unelaborate
- unembellished
- unerring
- unfancy
- unfeeling
- unfussy
- ungentle
- uniform
- unimaginative
- unornate
- unpleasant
- unpoetical
- unsmiling
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- unvarnished
- unyielding
- uphill
- vehement
- venomous
- violent
- virulent
- vitriolic
- weighty
- wicked
- winterbound
- winterlike
- wintery
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forms (3)
Forms
rhymes (115)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bombardier
- Chevalier
- Clear
- Deere
- Fear
- Greer
- Imagineer
- Lanier
- Lear
- Meir
- Mir
- Rainier
- Revere
- Sabir
- Sameer
- Samir
- Shamir
- Speer
- Zaire
- adhere
- amir
- appear
- auctioneer
- austere
- bandolier
- beer
- belvedere
- bere
- bioengineer
- bombardier
- brigadier
- budgeteer
- career
- cashier
- cavalier
- chandelier
- cheer
- chevalier
- clear
- cohere
- commandeer
- conventioneer
- dear
- deer
- deere
- disappear
- domineer
- ear
- electioneer
- emir
- engineer
- fear
- fier
- financier
- fleer
- frontier
- gear
- geer
- gere
- gondolier
- insincere
- interfere
- jeer
- kier
- kir
- lanier
- lear
- marketeer
- mear
- mere
- mir
- mutineer
- near
- neer
- pamphleteer
- peer
- persevere
- pier
- pioneer
- premier
- premiere
- profiteer
- queer
- racketeer
- rainier
- reappear
- rear
- reengineer
- revere
- sabir
- sear
- sere
- shear
- sheer
- shere
- sincere
- smear
- sneer
- souvenir
- spear
- speir
- sphere
- steer
- summiteer
- tear
- teer
- unclear
- veer
- veneer
- volunteer
- wazir
- wier
- year
- zahir
- zaire
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