severe

Definition for severe

adjective as in uncompromising, stern

Strongest matches

harsh, relentless, serious, strict, stringent

Weak matches

ascetic, astringent, austere, biting, caustic, close, cold, cruel, cutting, despotic, disapproving, dour, earnest, firm, flinty, forbidding, grave, grim, hard, hard-nosed, inconsiderate, inexorable, inflexible, iron-handed, obdurate, oppressive, peremptory, pitiless, resolute, resolved, rigid, rigorous, satirical, scathing, sober, stern, stiff, strait-laced, tight-lipped, tyrannical, unalterable, unbending, unchanging, unfeeling, unrelenting, unsmiling, unsparing

adjective as in harsh; extreme

Strongest matches

acute, bitter, dangerous, drastic, extreme, fierce, heavy, intense, punishing, serious, sharp, tough, violent

Weak matches

arduous, bleak, consequential, critical, demanding, distressing, domineering, effortful, exacting, forbidding, grave, grim, grinding, hard, hefty, implacable, inclement, intemperate, mordant, oppressive, overbearing, pitiless, rugged, strenuous, taxing, toilsome, unpleasant, unrelenting, weighty, wicked

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This is part of an intensive police and military operation to stop the practice that has severe environmental implications.

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Another goal of Measure A is to reduce the number of people on the street suffering from severe mental illness, which according to the latest census afflicts more than 15,000 of the county’s homeless people.

From Los Angeles Times

She wanted to know why one of her sons had returned from a holiday camp with bruises on his buttocks so severe that she took him to a doctor, who found a "12cm x 12cm bruise".

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She also started hearing voices, a sign of psychosis that can result from severe postnatal depression.

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His sister, Lourdes, fears for how the town will re-build with so much lost and now a severe lack of infrastructure.

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