severe
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
severe/sɪˈvɪə(r)/
▶adjective
- 1 (of something bad, undesirable, or difficult) very great; intense.
- 2 strict or harsh.
- 3 very plain in style or appearance.
– derivatives
severely adverb,
severity noun.
severely adverb,
severity noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. sévère or L. severus.
'severe' also found in these Oxford entries:
acute
- aggravated
- Aids
- alleviate
- amentia
- angina
- anguish
- asbestosis
- ascesis
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- bad
- bird flu
- bit
- blackwater fever
- blast
- blizzard
- bloodletting
- body blow
- bollocking
- cachexia
- caning
- carbuncle
- causalgia
- censure
- chloracne
- cholera
- colic
- coma
- commute
- crack
- crackdown
- creek
- cripple
- crunch
- cyberterrorism
- cytomegalovirus
- death
- degrade
- deluge
- demean
- depression
- devastate
- devastating
- dour
- draconian
- dressing-down
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- dyscalculia
