Found 4 items, similar to Sterner.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: stern
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: stern
buritan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: stern
stern
adj 1: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in
aspect;
“an austere expression”;
“a stern face” [syn:
austere]
2: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
“grim
determination”;
“grim necessity”;
“Russia's final hour, it
seemed, approached with inexorable certainty”;
“relentless
persecution”;
“the stern demands of parenthood” [syn:
grim,
inexorable,
relentless,
unappeasable,
unforgiving,
unrelenting]
3: severe and unremitting in making demands;
“an exacting
instructor”;
“a stern disciplinarian”;
“strict standards”
[syn:
strict,
exacting]
stern
n 1: the rear part of a ship [syn:
after part,
quarter,
poop,
tail]
2: United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
[syn:
Isaac Stern]
3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
“he
deserves a good kick in the butt”;
“are you going to sit
on your fanny and do nothing?” [syn:
buttocks,
nates,
arse,
butt,
backside,
bum,
buns,
can,
fundament,
hindquarters,
hind end,
keister,
posterior,
prat,
rear,
rear end,
rump,
seat,
tail,
tail end,
tooshie,
tush,
bottom,
behind,
derriere,
fanny,
ass]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sterner
Stern
\Stern\, a. [Compar.
Sterner; superl.
Sternest.] [OE.
sterne, sturne, AS. styrne; cf. D. stuurish stern, Sw. stursk
refractory. [root]166.]
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or
aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed;
unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as,
a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern
gaze; a stern decree.
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The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. --Chaucer.
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I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. --Shak.
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When that the poor have cried, C[ae]sar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak.
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Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. --Dryden.
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These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.
--Wordsworth.
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Syn: Gloomy; sullen; forbidding; strict; unkind;
hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; pitiless.
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Sterner
\Stern"er\, n. [See 3d
Stern.]
A director. [Obs. & R.] --Dr. R. Clerke.
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