Stern

Meaning of Stern

adjective
  1. (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
  1. 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:

austere, severe, stark

Meaning grim:

grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

Meaning strict:

strict, exacting

Meaning after part:

quarter, poop, tail

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:

serious

Meaning (of a person or their manner or expression) serious or unfriendly; not smiling:

unsmiling

Meaning forming an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration by furrowing one's brows:

frowning

Meaning unfriendly or threatening in appearance:

forbidding

Meaning not friendly:

unfriendly

Meaning having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness:

sombre

Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:

grave

Meaning not affected by alcohol; not drunk:

sober

Meaning relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance:

dour

Meaning not having or showing feeling or sympathy:

stony

Meaning of, containing, or reminiscent of flint:

flinty

Meaning resembling steel in colour, brightness, or strength:

steely

Meaning (of a mass or structure) not giving way to pressure; hard or solid:

unyielding

Meaning reserved, formal, or strict in one's behaviour or attitudes; austere and inflexible:

unbending

Meaning not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy:

unsympathetic

Meaning expressing an unfavourable opinion:

disapproving

Meaning showing stern and inflexible judgement:

Rhadamanthine

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:

back

Stern antonyms

Meaning friendly and cheerful:

genial

Meaning kind and pleasant:

friendly

Meaning a knot tied with two loops and two loose ends, used especially for tying shoelaces and decorative ribbons:

bow

Anagrams of Stern

Ernst, nerts, rents, terns

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

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