stern
/stərn/
adjective
(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"
synonyms: serious, unsmiling, frowning, poker-faced, severe, forbidding, grim, unfriendly, somber, grave, sober, austere, dour, stony, flinty, steely, unrelenting, unyielding, unforgiving, unbending, unsympathetic, disapproving, Rhadamanthine, boot-faced
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4 days ago · stern stresses inflexibility and inexorability of temper or character. stern arbiters of public morality.
hard, harsh, or severe: a stern reprimand. Synonyms: unsympathetic, cruel, unrelenting, adamant, unfeeling.
STERN meaning: 1. severe, or showing disapproval: 2. If something, such as a job, is stern, it is difficult: 3…. Learn more.
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