Thesaurus:stern
English
editAdjective
editSense: having a hardness and severity of nature or manner
editSynonyms
edit- callous
- cold [⇒ thesaurus]
- cold-eyed
- flint-hearted
- forbidding
- frosty
- grim
- hard [⇒ thesaurus]
- hard-boiled
- hardened
- hardhearted
- heartless
- harsh
- humorless
- icy
- iron-hearted
- indifferent
- insensitive
- intense
- rigorous
- severe
- stern
- stonehearted
- stony
- stonyhearted
- strict
- tough
- unfeeling
- unsentimental
- unsympathetic
- unmoved
Antonyms
editHyponyms
editCoordinate terms
editHypernyms
editVarious
editSee also
edit- Thesaurus:cheerless (of a situation or disposition)
Further reading
edit- “739. severity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “stern” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.