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severe
[ suh-veer ]
adjective
- harsh; unnecessarily extreme:
severe criticism; severe laws.
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- serious or stern in manner or appearance:
a severe face.
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- threatening a seriously bad outcome or involving serious issues; grave:
a severe illness.
- rigidly restrained in style, taste, manner, etc.; simple, plain, or austere.
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- causing discomfort or distress by extreme character or conditions, as weather, cold, or heat; unpleasantly violent, as rain or wind, or a blow or shock.
- difficult to endure, perform, fulfill, etc.:
a severe test of his powers.
- rigidly exact, accurate, or methodical:
severe standards.
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severe
/ sɪˈvɪə; sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ /
adjective
- rigorous or harsh in the treatment of others; strict
a severe parent
- serious in appearance or manner; stern
- critical or dangerous
a severe illness
- causing misery or discomfort by its harshness
severe weather
- strictly restrained in appearance; austere
a severe way of dressing
- hard to endure, perform, or accomplish
a severe test
- rigidly precise or exact
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adverb
- ˈԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·· adverb
- ··Ա noun
- ··· adjective
- o·ver···Ա noun
- ··· adjective
- su·per···Ա noun
- ܲ·· adjective
- un···Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of severe1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In the grip of severe but undiagnosed post-natal depression following the birth of Matthew, she said her reaction had been "I can't do this again".
The little boy sustained severe injuries in an assault that left him blind and brain damaged.
A mother who killed her newborn baby boy in 1998 while in the grip of severe post-natal depression has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence after a judge decided the case "called for compassion".
Seitter, currently a visiting professor of environmental studies and geosciences at the College of the Holy Cross, pointed to the arrival of spring’s severe weather season.
His son Dominic suffered severe skull injuries and his cause of death was trauma.
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