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adj. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others: a severe critic.

adj. Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles: a severe code of behavior.

adj. Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance: spoke in a severe voice.

adj. Extremely plain in substance or style: a severe black dress.

adj. Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress: a severe pain; a severe storm.

adj. Very dangerous or harmful; grave or grievous: severe mental illness.

adj. Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying: a severe test of our loyalty.

adj. Very bad or intense.

adj. Strict or harsh.

adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

adj. Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

adj. Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous.

adj. Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.

adj. Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme.

adj. Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous.

Serious or earnest in feeling, manner, or appearance; without levity; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

Very strict in judgment, discipline, or ac tion; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; harsh; rigid; merciless: as, severe criticism; severe punishment.

Strictly regulated by rule or principle; exactly conforming to a standard; rigidly methodical; hence, in lit., art, etc., avoiding, or not exhibiting or permitting, unnecessary or florid ornament, amplification, or the like; restrained; not luxuriant; always keeping measure; pure in line and form; chaste in conception; subordinated to a high ideal: as, a severe style of writing; the severest style of Greek architecture; the severe school of German music.

Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme: as, severe pain, anguish, or torture; severe cold; a severe winter.

Difficult to be endured; trying; critical; rigorous: as, a severe test; a severe examination.

Synonyms and Harsh, Strict, etc. (see austere), unrelenting.

Exact, accurate, unadorned, chaste.

Cutting, keen, biting.

adj. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

adj. severely simple

adj. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

adj. very strong or vigorous

adj. very bad in degree or extent

"The phrase "severe reality distortion field" is probably not one you bump into every day."

nonindulgent    strict    plain    intense    critical    strong    bad   

minor    mild   

severity    severeness    severely   

satirical    tart    austere    stern    rigid    censorious    grave    cutting    sarcastic    rough   

Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   

serious    terrible    acute    frequent    exact