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  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  severe
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Rigorous and unsparing in treating others.
Synonyms:  demanding, exacting, hard, harsh, rigid, stern, strict, tough, unyielding
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  severe
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Conveying great physical force.
Synonyms:  hard, heavy, hefty, powerful
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  severe
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  acute, afflictive, arduous, ascetic, astringent, atrocious, austere, biting, bitter, bleak, blistering, brutal, caustic, chronic, coarse, cold, crucial, cruel, cutting, dangerous, deadly, demanding, difficult, dour, draconian, drastic, exacting, excruciating, extreme, fierce, flagrant, grave, grievous, grim, grueling, gruff, hard, harsh, heinous, hostile, inclement, inexorable, inflexible, intense, ironclad, lamentable, moralistic, obdurate, oppressive, painful, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, scathing, sedate, serious, sharp, simple, sober, solemn, spartan, stern, stiff, straitlaced, strenuous, strict, stringent, tough, tyrannical, uncharitable, unpleasant, unrelenting, unsparing, vehement, violent
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  severe
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  austerity, harshness, inclemency, rigor, severity, stringency, vehemence
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  bitter
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort.
Synonyms:  brutal, hard, harsh, rough
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  bleak
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Cold and forbidding.
Synonyms:  austere, dour, grim, hard, harsh, stark
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  burdensome
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength.
Synonyms:  arduous, backbreaking, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, taxing, tough, trying, weighty
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  grave
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Having great consequence or weight.
Synonyms:  earnest, heavy, momentous, serious, weighty
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  grievous
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example.
Synonyms:  dangerous, grave, serious

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Cite This Source   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 
Cite This Source   Synonym Collection v1.1
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