Severest Synonyms and Antonyms

Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. gravest
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. gravest
  2. weightiest
  3. harshest
  4. firmest
  5. strictest
  6. heaviest
  7. grimmest
  8. austerest
  9. earnest
  10. sternest
  11. cruellest
Antonyms:
  1. friendliest
  2. mildest
  3. gentlest
Conveying great physical force
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. heftiest
  2. heaviest
  3. hardest
Very strong or vigorous
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hardest
  2. roughest
  3. harshest
  4. bitterest
Cold and forbidding
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. starkest
  2. harshest
  3. hardest
  4. grimmest
  5. dourest
  6. bleakest
  7. austerest

Severest Sentence Examples

  • The winter of 1708 was the severest that Europe had known for a century.

  • The first of these periods saw the severest fighting of the campaign.

  • He sought the most menial offices, and did penance for his sins by the severest austerities.

  • The process of holing in coal is one of the severest kinds of human labour.

  • Mr Schreiner, in reply, used expressions which called down upon him the severest censure and indignation, both in the colony and in Great Britain.

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