different between severe vs oppressive
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
- what severe adhd looks like
- what severe weather is in florida
- what severe stress does to the body
- what severe anemia feels like
oppressive
English
Etymology
oppress +? -ive
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?s?v
IPA(key): /??p??s.?v/
Adjective
oppressive (comparative more oppressive, superlative most oppressive)
- Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
- Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
- The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
- Weighing heavily on the spirit; intense, or overwhelming
- Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
- Hot and humid of the weather.
Synonyms
- (weather): humid, close
Translations
French
Adjective
oppressive
- feminine singular of oppressif
Italian
Adjective
oppressive
- feminine plural of oppressivo
oppressive From the web:
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- what's oppressive mean
- what's oppressive behavior
- what's oppressive regime
- oppressive heat meaning
- oppressive what is the definition
- what does oppressive mean
- what does oppressive government mean
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