severe

English Online Dictionary. What means severe‎? What does severe mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈvɪə/

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈvɪɹ/

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sɪˈviːɹ/, /-vɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

severe (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe)

1. Very bad or intense.

   Synonyms: extreme, intense

   Antonyms: mild, minor
2. Strict or harsh.

   Synonyms: brutal, hard, heartless, heavy, rigorous, serious; see also Thesaurus:stern

   Antonym: lenient

3. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

   Synonyms: modest, simple; see also Thesaurus:unadorned

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “severe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “severe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “severe”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Reeves, everse, reeves, servee

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seˈvere]
• Rhymes: -ere
• Hyphenation: se‧ve‧re

Adverb

severe

1. severely

Related terms

• severa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈvɛ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɛre
• Hyphenation: se‧vè‧re

Adjective

severe

1. feminine plural of severo

Latin

Pronunciation

• sevēre: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈu̯eː.re/, [s̠eˈu̯eːrɛ]
• sevēre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈve.re/, [seˈvɛːre]
• sēvēre: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seːˈu̯eː.re/, [s̠eːˈu̯eːrɛ]
• sēvēre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈve.re/, [seˈvɛːre]

Adjective

sevēre

1. vocative masculine singular of sevērus

Verb

sēvēre

1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of serō

References

• “severe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “severe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• severe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

severe (Cyrillic spelling севере)

1. vocative singular of sever