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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stern |
| Synonyms: | cruel, firm, hard, inflexible, rigid, steely, stony, unsympathetic, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, demoniac, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, rancorous, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | rocky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rugged, stony |
| Synonyms: | bouldered, craggy, flinty, hard, inflexible, jagged, lapidarian, lithic, pebbly, petrified, petrous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, solid, stonelike |
| Antonyms: | flat, smooth |
| Main Entry: | rocky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unyielding, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bloodless, firm, flinty, hard, impassible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, obdurate, pitiless, rocklike, rough, rugged, solid, steady, tough |
| Antonyms: | flexible, steady, yielding |
| Main Entry: | severe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising, stern |
| Synonyms: | astringent, austere, biting, caustic, close, cold, cruel, cutting, disapproving, dour, earnest, firm, flinty, forbidding, grave, grim, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inconsiderate, inexorable, inflexible, iron-handed, obdurate, oppressive, peremptory, pitiless, relentless, resolute, resolved, rigid, satirical, scathing, serious, sober, stern, stiff*, strait-laced, strict, tight-lipped, unalterable, unbending, unchanging, unfeeling, unrelenting, unsmiling, unsparing |
| Antonyms: | amenable, compromising, easy-going, friendly, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stern |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious, authoritarian |
| Synonyms: | ascetic, astringent, austere, bitter, bullheaded, by the book, cruel, disciplinary, dyed-in-the-wool, flinty, forbidding, frowning, grim, hang-tough, hard, hard-boiled, hard-core, hard-line, hard-nosed, hard-shell, hardheaded, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, mortified, mulish, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, steely, stiff-necked, strict, stubborn, tough, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, funny, lenient, light, smiling, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | tough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sturdy, strong |
| Synonyms: | brawny, cohesive, conditioned, dense, durable, fibrous, firm, fit, flinty, hard, hard as nails, hard-bitten, hardened, hardy, healthy, indigestible, inflexible, leathery, lusty, mighty, molded, resilient, resistant, rigid, robust, rugged, seasoned, sinewy, solid, stalwart, steeled, stiff, stout, strapping, tenacious, tight, tough as nails, unbreakable, unyielding, vigorous, withstanding |
| Antonyms: | delicate, fragile, unstable, vulnerable, weak, wobbly |
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