stern

Plural: sterns

Noun

• The rear part of a boat or ship.
• the rear part of a ship
• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
• The post of management or direction.
• The hinder part of anything.
• The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• A bird, the black tern.

Adjective Satellite

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
  • "a stern face"
• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  • "the stern demands of parenthood"
• severe and unremitting in making demands
  • "a stern disciplinarian"
• severely simple

Adj

• Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
• Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Verb

• To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
• To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.

Adjective

• Serious and unyielding in manner or character.

Examples

• He looked for a spot on the board to play STERN, preferably near a double letter.
• The STERN look from his opponent indicated a challenging game was ahead.

Synonyms

after part, arse, ass, austere, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, exacting, fanny, fundament, grim, hind end, hindquarters, inexorable, Isaac Stern, keister, nates, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, relentless, rump, seat, severe, stark, strict, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, aft, bleak, callous, cheerless, cold, cold-eyed, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, dour, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, flint-hearted, forbidding, forlorn, frosty, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, rigorous, rockhearted, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, sullen, sunless, tough, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, unmoved, unsympathetic, wintry, woeful

Antonyms

animated, bow, cheerful, emotional, empathic, fore, forestem, gregarious, kindly, lenient, prore, prow, soft, stem, unstrict, vivacious

Related Words

aft, cheerless, ghastly, keel, mean, obstinate, resilient, rigid, ruthless, sinister, strong, sturdy, surly, taciturn, uncompassionate, unrelenting

Anagrams of stern