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Defenition of the word stern

    • Defenition of the word stern

      • The fleshy part of the human body that one sits on.
      • The rear part of a ship or a boat.
      • of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
      • the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
      • not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood
      • (nautical) pertaining to the after part of a vessel
      • the rear part of a ship
      • severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
      • the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
      • United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
      • not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia''s final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
      • severe and unremitting in making demands
      • of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
      • not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
      • severely simple

    Synonyms for the word stern

      • after part
      • arse
      • ass
      • austere
      • backside
      • behind
      • bottom
      • bum
      • buns
      • butt
      • buttocks
      • can
      • demanding
      • derriere
      • dour
      • exacting
      • fanny
      • firm
      • forbidding
      • formidable
      • fundament
      • grave
      • grim
      • hardhearted
      • harsh
      • hind end
      • hindquarters
      • humorless
      • inexorable
      • keister
      • poop
      • posterior
      • prat
      • quarter
      • rear
      • rear end
      • relentless
      • rump
      • seat
      • serious
      • severe
      • somber
      • strict
      • tail
      • tail end
      • tooshie
      • tush
      • unappeasable
      • uncompromising
      • unforgiving
      • unrelenting
      • unsmiling
      • unsympathetic
      • unyielding

    Similar words in the stern

      • aft
      • demanding
      • implacable
      • nonindulgent
      • stern
      • stern's
      • sterne
      • sterne's
      • sterned
      • sterner
      • sternest
      • sterning
      • sternly
      • sternness
      • sterno
      • sterns
      • sternum
      • sternum's
      • sternums

    Meronymys for the word stern

      • body
      • escutcheon
      • ship
      • skeg
      • torso
      • trunk

    Hypernyms for the word stern

      • back
      • body part
      • fiddler
      • rear
      • violinist

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