This list for “Severe” includes only entries that have solved similar clues in the past, giving you a streamlined view of what’s worked in puzzles with the same or close phrasing.
Answers:
- HARSH
- STRICT
- ASTRINGENT
- AUSTERE
- STRINGENT
- ACUTE
- EXTREME
- SCATHING
- SHARP
- DOUR
- STIFF
- GRIM
- STERN
- DRASTIC
- RIGOROUS
- INTENSE
- ASCETIC
- BAD
- VIOLENT
- TRYING
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