What is another word for 'severe'?

Synonyms for SEVERE: life-threatening, dreadful, distasteful, revolting, pixilated, repellant, foul, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, austere, serious, awful, puckish, frightful, horrendous, sinful, tremendous, disgustful, dire, loathly, stern, grievous, skanky, repelling, atrocious, painful, prankish, impish, grave, dangerous, yucky, wicked, unholy, dread(a), hard, unspeakable, horrific, terrible, dreaded, abominable, frightening, fearsome, fearful, loathsome, direful, stark, disgusting, spartan, knockout, arduous, grueling, tough, toilsome, heavy, voiceless, laborious, difficult, gruelling, intemperate, concentrated, punishing, unvoiced, operose, backbreaking, surd, strong, perfect(a), consummate(a), unadulterated, double-dyed(a), ascetic, bare, arrant(a), desolate, staring(a), unrelenting, sodding(a), unappeasable, everlasting(a), crude(a), complete(a), gross(a), stark(a), pure(a), relentless, barren, unforgiving, blunt, grim, bleak, inexorable, exacting, thoroughgoing(a), strict, ascetical, utter(a), sober, unsafe, unplayful, weighty, monstrous, good, sedate, flagitious, heartbreaking, heartrending, solemn, harsh, inflexible, morose, rigid, rigorous, stiff, uncompromising, unmitigated, unyielding, sharp, afflictive, distressing, violent, extreme, exact, critical, censorious, caustic, sarcastic, cutting, keen, bitter, cruel, strait-laced, peremptory, accurate, methodical, simple, plain, unadorned, concise, chaste, satirical, stinging, biting, acute, intense, hard to bear, stringent, seriously, major, gross, drastic, fierce, deep, severo, graves, severely, great, gravely, authoritarian, flinty, heavy-handed, ramrod, dour, forbidding, gruff, intimidating, lowering, louring, rough, rugged, steely, ungentle, earnest, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced, sobersided, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, brutal, burdensome, excruciating, hardhanded, inhuman, murderous, onerous, oppressive, searing, trying, Augean, challenging, demanding, effortful, formidable, hellacious, herculean, killer, moiling, pick-and-shovel, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, uphill, etc.

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List of Synonyms for severe

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