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Stern
stəːn
Stern definitions
adjective
stern
sterner
sternest
- (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in asserting authority or exercising discipline
"a smile transformed his stern face"
serious unsmiling frowning poker-faced severe forbidding grim unfriendly sombre grave sober austere dour stony flinty steely unrelenting unyielding unforgiving unbending unsympathetic disapproving- (of an act or statement) strict and severe
"stern measures to restrict vehicle growth"
- (of competition or opposition) putting someone or something under extreme pressure
"the past year has been a stern test of the ability of British industry"