different between severe vs living

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)

1. Very bad or intense.
2. Strict or harsh.

   a severe taskmaster

3. 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

1. severely

Related terms

• severa

Italian

Adjective

severe

1. feminine plural of severo

Latin

Verb

s?v?re

1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of ser?

Adjective

sev?re

1. 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 ??????)

1. vocative singular of sever

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v??/
• Rhymes: -?v??

Verb

living

1. present participle of live

Adjective

living (not comparable)

1. Having life; alive.

   a living, breathing child

   Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
2. In use or existing.

3. Of everyday life.

4. True to life.

5. Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
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7. Used as an intensifier.

Synonyms

• (having life): extant, living, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (existing): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
• (representing life): lifey, lifelike, limned, lively, naturalistic
• (intensifier): blasted, doggone, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned

Antonyms

• dead
• nonliving

Hyponyms

• long-living
• longest-living

Related terms

Related terms

• live, life
• alive

Translations

Noun

living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)

1. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
2. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

   What do you do for a living?

3. A style of life.

   plain living

4. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Derived terms

• it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
• make a living

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French living or less plausibly an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.v??/
• Hyphenation: li?ving

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. (Belgium) A living room.

   Synonyms: huiskamer, woonkamer

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.vi?/

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. living room

Italian

Etymology

From English living room.

Noun

living m (plural living)

1. living room

   Synonym: soggiorno

Spanish

Etymology

From English [[living room#English|living (room)]].

Noun

living m (plural livings)

1. (Argentina) living room

   Synonym: sala de estar