severe

Adjective Satellite

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
  • "severe pain"
  • "a severe case of flu"
• very strong or vigorous
  • "a severe blow"
• severely simple
• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; - H.G.Wells
  • "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"
  • "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"
• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  • "a severe case of pneumonia"
• very bad in degree or extent
  • "a severe worldwide depression"
  • "the house suffered severe damage"

Adj

• Very bad or intense.
• Strict or harsh.
• Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

Adjective

• Very great; intense; strict or harsh.

Examples

• a severe old maiden aunt
• a severe taskmaster
• severe clothing
• The severe competition made every Scrabble move critical.

Synonyms

austere, dangerous, grave, grievous, hard, knockout, life-threatening, serious, spartan, stark, stern, terrible, wicked, bare, brutal, callous, chaste, cold, cold-eyed, dour, extreme, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, heavy, humorless, icy, inornate, insensitive, intense, iron-hearted, modest, plain, quiet, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, simple, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unadorned, undecked, unembellished, unextravagant, ungarnished, unmoved, unornamented, unsympathetic, untrimmed, unvarnished

Antonyms

lenient, mild, minor

Related Words

SEVERELY