Stern

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character: a stern disciplinarian. See Synonyms at severe.
  • adj. Grim, gloomy, or forbidding in appearance or outlook.
  • adj. Firm or unyielding; uncompromising.
  • adj. Inexorable; relentless: stern necessity.
  • n. Nautical The rear part of a ship or boat.
  • n. A rear part or section.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
  • adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
  • n. The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The black tern.
  • adj. Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh
  • n. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
  • n. The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
  • n. Fig.: The post of management or direction.
  • n. The hinder part of anything.
  • n. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • adj. Being in the stern, or being astern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Severe in disposition or conduct; austere; harsh; rigorous; hard.
  • Characterized by severity or rigor; especially, resulting from or expressive of harshness: as, a stern reply; a stern glance; a stern rebuke.
  • Grim or forbidding in aspect; gloomy; repelling.
  • Rough; violent; tumultuous; fierce.
  • Rigid; stringent; strict.
  • Stout; strong; heavy.
  • Firm; unyielding; inflexible; hard.
  • Synonyms Severe. Harsh, Strict, etc. See austere.
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  • Unrelenting, uncompromising, inflexible.
  • n. The rudder or helm of a vessel.
  • n. Hence, figuratively, any instrument of management or direction; a guiding agent or agency; also, a post of direction or control.
  • n. The hinder part of a ship or boat, where the rudder is placed; the part furthest removed from the stem or prow. See also cut under poop.
  • n. The hinder parts, backside, buttocks, or rump; the tail of an animal.
  • To steer; guide.
  • To back (a boat) with the oars; back water; row backward.
  • To draw back; back water: said of a boat or its crew.
  • n. Same as starn.
  • n. A tern.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. severely simple
  • n. the rear part of a ship
  • n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • adj. severe and unremitting in making demands
  • n. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
  • adj. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
  • adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  • Equivalent
    plain    demanding    nonindulgent    strict    implacable   
    Antonym
    bow   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rear    back    body part    fiddler    violinist   
    Unknown
    buttocks    counter    poop   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pitiless    forbidding    sullen    hard-hearted    unkind    strict    cruel    unfeeling    gloomy    hard   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bern    Berne    Fern    Hearn    Herne    Kern    Laverne    Sterne    Verne    adjourn   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    grim    solemn    haughty    rigid    sullen    cold