单词 | severe |
释义 | severe/sɪˈvɪə /adjective (severer, severest) 1(Of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense: a severe shortage of technicians a severe attack of asthma the damage is not too severe...
Synonyms acute, very bad, serious, grave, critical, dire, drastic, grievous, extreme, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, appalling, sore; alarming, worrying, distressing, dangerous, perilous, life-threatening; Medicine peracute, profound archaic or humorous parlous fierce, violent, strong, wild, powerful, forceful, intense; tempestuous, turbulent, tumultuous excruciating, agonizing, violent, intense, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, unbearable, intolerable, unendurable; stabbing, shooting informal splitting, thumping, pounding 1.1Demanding great ability, skill, or resilience: a severe test of stamina...
Synonyms very difficult, demanding, hard, tough, arduous, formidable, taxing, exacting, rigorous, punishing, onerous, gruelling, burdensome, heavy; back-breaking, uphill, stiff 2(Of punishment of a person) strict or harsh: the charges would have warranted a severe sentence...
Synonyms harsh, hard, bitter, bitterly cold, cold, bleak, freezing, icy, arctic, polar, Siberian, extreme, nasty harsh, scathing, sharp, strong, fierce, ferocious, stringent, savage, blistering, searing, stinging, scorching, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, biting, cutting, withering, rigorous, unsparing; smart, sound extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, inordinate, outrageous, sky-high, harsh, stiff; punitive, punishing, penal; British swingeing strict, stern, rigorous, harsh, hard, inflexible, uncompromising, inexorable, implacable, rigid, unbending, relentless, unrelenting, unyielding, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, draconian, oppressive, repressive, punitive, rough, nasty; tyrannical, iron-fisted, iron-handed, brutal, inhuman, cruel, savage Australian/New Zealand informal solid 2.1(Of a person) formal and unsmiling.She was tall and stout with grey hair and a severe expression on her face....
Synonyms stern, dour, grim, grim-faced, forbidding, disapproving, tight-lipped, unsmiling, unfriendly, sombre, grave, sober, serious, austere, stiff, flinty, stony, steely, glowering, frowning; cold, aloof, frosty, icy, frigid 3Very plain in style or appearance: she wore another severe suit, grey this time...
Synonyms plain, simple, restrained, unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, unornamented, austere, chaste, spare, stark, ultra-plain, unfussy, without frills, spartan, ascetic, monastic, puritanical; functional, clinical, uncluttered; classic OriginMid 16th century (in sense 2): from French sévère or Latin severus.
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