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Exact Match:

severe

very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"

intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"

Synonyms:

• Draconian,
• Herculean,
• Siberian,
• Spartan,
• Spartanic,
• abrupt,
• absolute,
• absolutist,
• absolutistic,
• abstruse,
• acerbic,
• acid,
• acidulous,
• acrid,
• acrimonious,
• acute,
• afflictive,
• aggressive,
• agonizing,
• algid,
• aloof,
• arbitrary,
• arctic,
• arduous,
• aristocratic,
• arrogant,
• ascetic,
• asperous,
• astringent,
• atrocious,
• austere,
• authoritarian,
• authoritative,
• autocratic,
• awful,
• badly,
• bald,
• bare,
• basic,
• bearish,
• beastly,
• below zero,
• biting,
• bitter,
• bitterly cold,
• bleak,
• blistering,
• bluff,
• blunt,
• blustering,
• blustery,
• boreal,
• bossy,
• brash,
• brisk,
• brumal,
• brusque,
• brutal,
• burdensome,
• candid,
• caustic,
• cavalier,
• chaste,
• churlish,
• close,
• cold,
• cold as charity,
• cold as death,
• cold as ice,
• cold as marble,
• common,
• commonplace,
• complex,
• constant,
• cramping,
• crimpy,
• crisp,
• critical,
• crude,
• cruel,
• crusty,
• curt,
• cutting,
• dangerous,
• delicate,
• demanding,
• despotic,
• dictatorial,
• difficile,
• difficult,
• dire,
• direct,
• disagreeable,
• disciplined,
• distressing,
• domineering,
• double-edged,
• dour,
• drastic,
• dreadful,
• dry,
• dull,
• edged,
• effortful,
• elementary,
• escharotic,
• essential,
• even,
• exact,
• exacting,
• excessive,
• excruciating,
• exigent,
• exorbitant,
• express,
• extravagant,
• extreme,
• faithful,
• fastidious,
• fatal,
• feudal,
• fierce,
• fine,
• flinty,
• forbidding,
• formidable,
• frank,
• freezing,
• freezing cold,
• frigid,
• fundamental,
• furious,
• gelid,
• glacial,
• glowering,
• gnawing,
• grave,
• gravely,
• great,
• grievous,
• grim,
• grinding,
• griping,
• gruff,
• hairy,
• hard,
• hard-earned,
• hard-fought,
• hardly,
• harrowing,
• harsh,
• harshly,
• heavy,
• heavy-handed,
• hibernal,
• hiemal,
• high-handed,
• homely,
• homespun,
• homogeneous,
• hostile,
• hurtful,
• hurting,
• hyperborean,
• ice-cold,
• ice-encrusted,
• icelike,
• icy,
• immoderate,
• imperative,
• imperial,
• imperious,
• incisive,
• inclement,
• indivisible,
• inerrable,
• inerrant,
• inexorable,
• infallible,
• inflexible,
• inhospitable,
• inhuman,
• inornate,
• intemperate,
• intense,
• intensely,
• intricate,
• iron-willed,
• irreducible,
• irritating,
• jawbreaking,
• keen,
• knotted,
• knotty,
• laborious,
• lean,
• lordly,
• magisterial,
• magistral,
• markedly,
• masterful,
• mathematical,
• matter-of-fact,
• mean,
• merciless,
• mere,
• meticulous,
• micrometrically precise,
• microscopic,
• modest,
• monastic,
• monocratic,
• monolithic,
• mordacious,
• mordant,
• mortal,
• mortified,
• natural,
• neat,
• nice,
• nipping,
• nippy,
• no picnic,
• nose-tickling,
• not easy,
• numbing,
• obdurate,
• of a piece,
• onerous,
• open,
• operose,
• oppressive,
• outrageous,
• overbearing,
• overruling,
• painful,
• painfully,
• painstaking,
• paroxysmal,
• penetrating,
• peremptory,
• piercing,
• pinching,
• pinpoint,
• piquant,
• pitiless,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• poignant,
• precise,
• primal,
• primary,
• primitive,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• pungent,
• punishing,
• punitive,
• pure,
• pure and simple,
• racking,
• raw,
• refined,
• relentless,
• religious,
• religiously exact,
• repressive,
• restrictive,
• rigid,
• rigorous,
• rigorously,
• rough,
• roughly,
• rugged,
• rustic,
• ruthless,
• savage,
• scathing,
• scientific,
• scientifically exact,
• self-disciplined,
• serious,
• set with thorns,
• severe,
• severely,
• sharp,
• shooting,
• short,
• simon-pure,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• single,
• sleety,
• slushy,
• smart,
• snappy,
• snippy,
• sober,
• sore,
• sour,
• spare,
• sparse,
• spasmatic,
• spasmic,
• spasmodic,
• spiny,
• splitting,
• square,
• stabbing,
• stark,
• steep,
• stern,
• stiff,
• stinging,
• stone-cold,
• stony,
• stormy,
• straightforward,
• strait-laced,
• strenuous,
• strict,
• strident,
• stringent,
• subtle,
• subzero,
• supercooled,
• suppressive,
• surly,
• tart,
• taxing,
• terminal,
• thorny,
• ticklish,
• toilsome,
• tormenting,
• torturous,
• tough,
• trenchant,
• tricky,
• truculent,
• turbulent,
• tyrannical,
• tyrannous,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• unbending,
• uncluttered,
• uncompromising,
• unconscionable,
• undecorated,
• undeviating,
• undifferenced,
• undifferentiated,
• unelaborate,
• unembellished,
• unerring,
• unfancy,
• unfeeling,
• unfussy,
• ungentle,
• uniform,
• unimaginative,
• unornate,
• unpleasant,
• unpoetical,
• unsmiling,
• unsparing,
• unsympathetic,
• unvarnished,
• unyielding,
• uphill,
• vehement,
• venomous,
• violent,
• virulent,
• vitriolic,
• weighty,
• wicked,
• winterbound,
• winterlike,
• wintery,
• wintry