Severe crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 letters

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Synonyms and Definitions

HARSH

• Synonyms: abrasive, coarse, rough

STRICT

• Synonyms: exacting, hard-and-fast, nonindulgent, rigid, rigorous, stern

ASTRINGENT

• Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, astringent drug, styptic

AUSTERE

• Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, spartan, stark

STRINGENT

• Synonyms: tight

ACUTE

• Synonyms: acuate, acute accent, ague, discriminating, incisive, intense, keen, knifelike, needlelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp

EXTREME

• Synonyms: extreme point, extremum, utmost, uttermost

SCATHING

• Synonyms: vituperative

SHARP

• Synonyms: abrupt, acute, astute, crisp, precipitous, sharp-worded, shrewd, shrill, tart

DOUR

• Synonyms: dark, dogged, forbidding, glowering, glum, grim, moody, morose, persistent, pertinacious, saturnine, sour, sullen, tenacious, unyielding

STIFF

• Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, buckram, cadaver, clay, cockeyed, corpse, crocked, firm, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potent, remains, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, starchy, steadfast, steady, strong, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wet

GRIM

• Synonyms: black, blue, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, ghastly, gloomy, grisly, gruesome, inexorable, low, low-spirited, macabre, mordant, relentless, sick, sorry, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

STERN

• Synonyms: after part, arse, ass, austere, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, rump, seat, strict, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush

RIGOROUS

• Synonyms: stringent

INTENSE

• Synonyms: vivid
• Definition: Having or showing a unique characteristic to an extreme extent.

ASCETIC

• Synonyms: abstainer

BAD

• Synonyms: badness, big, defective, forged, high-risk, regretful, risky, speculative, spoiled, spoilt, tough, uncollectible, unfit, unsound

VIOLENT

• Synonyms: crimson, fierce, red, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, wild

TRYING

• Synonyms: adjudicate, assay, attempt, essay, examine, hear, judge, nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, prove, render, sample, seek, strain, stress, stressful, taste, test, try, try on, try out