Severer Synonyms and Antonyms

Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weightier
  2. heavier
  3. tougher
  4. rougher
  5. harder
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. graver
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Difficult or rigorous
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. harder
  2. crustier
  3. heftier
  4. grimmer
  5. sharper
  6. heavier
  7. gruffer
  8. crueller
Antonyms:
  1. simpler
  2. easier
  3. calmer
  4. milder
Having great consequence or weight
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weightier
  2. heavier
  3. graver
Uncompromising, stern
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sterner
  2. stricter
  3. tougher
  4. grimmer
  5. harsher
  6. simpler
  7. graver
  8. fiercer
  9. deadlier
  10. coarser
  11. plainer
  12. firmer
  13. sharper
  14. crueller
  15. harder
  16. rougher
  17. gruffer
  18. colder
  19. bleaker
  20. bitterer
  21. starker
Antonyms:
  1. friendlier
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Uncompromising
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. grimmer
  2. starker
  3. harsher
  4. harder
  5. bleaker
Antonyms:
  1. gentler
  2. milder
Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. rougher
  2. harsher
  3. harder
  4. bitterer

Severer Sentence Examples

  • This roused the emperor to visit him with a severer punishment, though Innocent I.

  • St Mark tells us only his message of hope; but here we read the severer language with which he called men to repentance.

  • Classical studies he regarded as an agreeable relaxation from severer pursuits.

  • He began to think of quitting the world, and pondered a plan for establishing a kind of humanistic convent, where he might dedicate himself, in the company of kindred spirits, to still severer studies and a closer communion with God.

  • He did but express the spirit of the period he opened; and it may also be added that his own ideal was higher and severer than that of the illustrious humanists who followed him.

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