Thesaurus:stern

Thesaurus

stern

English

Adjective

Sense: having a hardness and severity of nature or manner

Synonyms

• callous
• cold    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cold-eyed
• flint-hearted
• forbidding
• frosty
• grim
• hard    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hard-boiled
• hardened
• hardhearted
• heartless
• harsh
• humorless    [⇒ thesaurus]
• icy
• iron-hearted
• insensitive
• rigorous
• severe
• stern
• stonehearted
• stony
• stonyhearted
• strict
• tough
• unsympathetic
• unmoved

Antonyms

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

Hyponyms

• 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

• 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.