Severe Synonyms and Antonyms

sə-vîr
Stern
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. austere
  2. stern
  3. grim
  4. harsh
  5. stark
  6. strict
  7. ascetic
  8. exacting
  9. uncompromising
  10. unbending
  11. inflexible
  12. unchanging
  13. unalterable
  14. inexorable
  15. cruel
  16. oppressive
  17. bleak
  18. close
  19. grinding
  20. peremptory
  21. obdurate
  22. resolute
  23. dour
  24. rigid
  25. earnest
  26. stiff
  27. forbidding
  28. resolved
  29. relentless
  30. spartan
  31. strait-laced
  32. determined
  33. unfeeling
  34. insensate
  35. with an iron will
  36. hard
  37. inconsiderate
  38. firm
  39. immovable
  40. as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar
  41. adamant
  42. unyielding
Antonyms:
  1. flexible
  2. compromising
  3. gentle
  4. yielding
  5. amenable
  6. friendly
  7. genial
  8. willing
  9. mild
  10. easy-going
Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bitter
  2. brutal
  3. hard
  4. harsh
  5. rough
Conveying great physical force
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hard
  2. heavy
  3. hefty
  4. powerful
Having great consequence or weight
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. earnest
  2. grave
  3. heavy
  4. momentous
  5. serious
  6. weighty
Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dangerous
  2. grave
  3. serious
  4. grievous
  5. life-threatening
Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. heavy
  2. arduous
  3. demanding
  4. difficult
  5. exacting
  6. hard
  7. oppressive
  8. rigorous
  9. rough
  10. tough
  11. backbreaking
  12. burdensome
  13. effortful
  14. acute
  15. afflictive
  16. ascetic
  17. astringent
  18. atrocious
  19. austere
  20. biting
  21. bitter
  22. exigent
  23. bleak
  24. blistering
  25. brutal
  26. caustic
  27. chronic
  28. formidable
  29. coarse
  30. cold
  31. crucial
  32. cruel
  33. cutting
  34. dangerous
  35. deadly
  36. terrible
  37. distressing
  38. dour
  39. draconian
  40. drastic
  41. laborious
  42. exact
  43. excruciating
  44. extreme
  45. fierce
  46. onerous
  47. flagrant
  48. grave
  49. grievous
  50. grim
  51. grueling
  52. gruff
  53. harsh
  54. heinous
  55. hostile
  56. inclement
  57. inexorable
  58. inflexible
  59. intense
  60. ironclad
  61. lamentable
  62. methodical
  63. taxing
  64. moralistic
  65. obdurate
  66. painful
  67. peremptory
  68. plain
  69. precise
  70. puritanical
  71. relentless
  72. trying
  73. rigid
  74. scathing
  75. sedate
  76. weighty
  77. serious
  78. sharp
  79. simple
  80. sober
  81. solemn
  82. spartan
  83. stern
  84. stiff
  85. straitlaced
  86. strenuous
  87. strict
  88. stringent
  89. tyrannical
  90. unadorned
  91. uncharitable
  92. unembellished
  93. unmerciful
  94. unpleasant
  95. unrelenting
  96. unsparing
  97. vehement
  98. violent
  99. wicked

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Severe Sentence Examples

  • On such matters I am only severe with myself.

  • A small, older woman in severe grey opened the door.

  • In 1887 a severe banking crisis occurred in Sardinia.

  • I have heard of such cases and know that His Majesty is very severe in such affairs.

  • As we transition from one set of economic realities to another, there will be severe disruptions along the way.

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