serious and strict; not kind; (of the weather, attacks of disease etc) strong, extreme; making great demands on skill, ability, patience etc
uncompromising, stern
Cases of word usage
1) causing severe weakness (crippling)
2) a fool; (not now used) a person suffering severe mental handicap (idiot)
3) make more forceful, severe (intensified)
4) not severe (especially in punishing people) (lenient)
5) a kind of small insect living on the bodies of people and animals; a bad person deserving severe criticism (louse)
6) gentle; not severe (mild)
7) to make (anger, punishment etc) less serious or severe (mitigate)
8) a drug made of opium, used for reducing severe pain (morphine)
9) any severe or painful test of character or endurance (ordeal)
10) a person suffering from severe emotional disorder, especially one who is aggressive and antisocial (psychopath)
