Thesaurus:stern

English

Adjective

Sense: having a hardness and severity of nature or manner

Synonyms

• brutal
• callous
• cold     [⇒ thesaurus]
• insensate (formal)
• hardhanded
• cold-eyed
• cruel     [⇒ thesaurus]
• dour
• thick-skinned
• flint-hearted
• forbidding
• frosty
• grim
• hard     [⇒ thesaurus]
• hard-boiled
• hardened
• hardhearted
• heartless
• harsh
• humorless     [⇒ thesaurus]
• icy
• iron-hearted
• insensate
• insensitive
• marble-hearted
• rigorous
• rockhearted
• severe
• stern
• stonehearted
• stony
• stonyhearted
• strict
• tough
• unsympathetic
• unmoved

Antonyms

• animated     [⇒ thesaurus]
• cheerful
• emotional
• empathic
• gregarious
• kindly     [⇒ thesaurus]
• lenient     [⇒ thesaurus]
• soft     [⇒ thesaurus]
• unstrict
• vivacious

Hyponyms

• Rhadamanthine
• tsundere

Coordinate terms

• aloof     [⇒ thesaurus]
• apathetic     [⇒ thesaurus]
• impartial     [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• alexithymic     [⇒ thesaurus]
• serious     [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• ghastly
• mean     [⇒ thesaurus]
• obstinate     [⇒ thesaurus]
• resilient
• rigid
• ruthless
• serious     [⇒ thesaurus]
• sinister
• strong
• sturdy
• surly
• taciturn     [⇒ thesaurus]
• uncompassionate
• unrelenting

See also

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