different between torrential vs severe
torrential
English
Etymology
From torrent +? -ial.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t????n.t??l/, /t????n.t??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /t????nt.??l/, /t????nt.??l/
Adjective
torrential (comparative more torrential, superlative most torrential)
- Coming or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities.
- There was a torrential downpour and we were all soaked.
Derived terms
- torrentiality
- torrentially
Related terms
- torrent
- torrid
- toast
Translations
torrential From the web:
- what's torrential mean
- what torrential rain
- what's torrential downpour mean
- torrential what does it means
- what is torrential rainfall
- what causes torrential rain
- what does torrential rain mean
- what does torrential bleeding meaning
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
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