Stern
Meaning of Stern
- (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.
a smile transformed his stern face
Mama looked stern
Old English styrne, probably from the West Germanic base of the verb stare.
noun- the rearmost part of a ship or boat.
he stood at the stern of the yacht
Middle English: probably from Old Norse stjórn ‘steering’, from stýra ‘to steer’.
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Hyphenation of Stern
Stern
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- Stern is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Stern synonyms
Meaning austere:
Meaning grim:
grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
Meaning strict:
Meaning after part:
Meaning buttocks:
buttocks, nates, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rump, seat, tail, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, fanny, ass
Meaning solemn or thoughtful in character or manner:
Meaning (of a person or their manner or expression) serious or unfriendly; not smiling:
Meaning forming an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration by furrowing one's brows:
Meaning unfriendly or threatening in appearance:
Meaning not friendly:
Meaning having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness:
Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:
Meaning not affected by alcohol; not drunk:
Meaning relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance:
Meaning not having or showing feeling or sympathy:
Meaning of, containing, or reminiscent of flint:
Meaning resembling steel in colour, brightness, or strength:
Meaning (of a mass or structure) not giving way to pressure; hard or solid:
Meaning reserved, formal, or strict in one's behaviour or attitudes; austere and inflexible:
Meaning not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy:
Meaning expressing an unfavourable opinion:
Meaning showing stern and inflexible judgement:
Meaning the side or part of something that is away from the spectator or from the direction in which it moves or faces; the rear:
Stern antonyms
Meaning friendly and cheerful:
Meaning kind and pleasant:
Meaning a knot tied with two loops and two loose ends, used especially for tying shoelaces and decorative ribbons:
Anagrams of Stern
Words that rhyme with Stern
tern, alatern, quatern, lectern, klaftern, sempitern, Chiltern, altern, chiltern, disaltern, saltern, subaltern, superaltern, Comintern, Komintern, Tintern, comintern, grintern, intern, lantern, lintern, quartern, wartern, Eastern, Guildenstern, Krusenstern, Leichtenstern, Lowenstern, Mideastern, Midwestern, Northeastern, Northwestern, Southeastern, Southwestern, Western, astern, cistern, eastern, hestern, intracistern, midwestern, morgenstern, noneastern, nonwestern, northeastern, northwestern, pastern, postern, prostern, sistern