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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:
- what severe weather
- what severe depression feels like
- what severe means
- what severe anxiety feels like
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- what severe weather is in florida
- what severe stress does to the body
- what severe anemia feels like
disagreeable
English
Etymology
From Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). Surface etymology is dis- +? agreeable.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [d?s????i.?b??]
Adjective
disagreeable (comparative more disagreeable, superlative most disagreeable)
- Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
- (archaic) Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.
Antonyms
- agreeable
Translations
Noun
disagreeable (plural disagreeables)
- Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
disagreeable From the web:
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- what disagreeable person mean
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- what do disagreeable mean
- what does disagreeable mean antonym
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