Thesaurus:stern
English
Adjective
Sense: having a hardness and severity of nature or manner
Synonyms
- callous
- cold [⇒ thesaurus]
- cold-eyed
- dour
- flint-hearted
- forbidding
- frosty
- grim
- hard [⇒ thesaurus]
- hard-boiled
- hardened
- hardhearted
- heartless
- harsh
- humorless [⇒ thesaurus]
- icy
- iron-hearted
- insensitive
- rigorous
- rockhearted
- severe
- stern
- stonehearted
- stony
- stonyhearted
- strict
- tough
- unsympathetic
- unmoved
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
- Thesaurus:cheerless (of a situation or disposition)
Further reading
- “739. severity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “stern” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.