different between powerful vs severe
powerful
English
Alternative forms
- powreful, powrefull (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English pouerful, powarfull, equivalent to power +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?pa??f?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pa??f?l/
- Hyphenation: pow?er?ful
Adjective
powerful (comparative more powerful or powerfuller or powerfuler, superlative most powerful or powerfullest or powerfulest)
- Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
- (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
Synonyms
- mightful
- mighty
- powersome
- strengthful
- strong
- forceful
Antonyms
- powerless
- strengthless
Translations
See also
- strong
Adverb
powerful (comparative more powerful, superlative most powerful)
- (Southern US) Synonym of very
Anagrams
- powreful
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severe
English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??v??/ (US) IPA(key): /s??v?r/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
severe (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe)
- Very bad or intense.
- Strict or harsh.
- a severe taskmaster
- Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
- a severe old maiden aunt
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (very bad or intense): mild
- (very bad or intense): minor
- (strict or harsh): lenient
Derived terms
- severely (adverb)
- severity (noun)
- severeness (noun)
Translations
Further reading
- severe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- severe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- severe at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Reeves, everse, reeves, servee
Esperanto
Adverb
severe
- severely
Related terms
- severa
Italian
Adjective
severe
- feminine plural of severo
Latin
Verb
s?v?re
- third-person plural perfect active indicative of ser?
Adjective
sev?re
- vocative masculine singular of sev?rus
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 ??????)
- vocative singular of sever
severe From the web:
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- what severe means
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- what severe anemia feels like
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