Severe
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet gloveidiom
- austere
- austerely
- authoritarian
- be heavy onsomeoneidiom
- brutally
- disciplinarian
- draconian
- flaming
- flinty
- hard
- hardness
- harsh
- harshly
- harshness
- heavy
- iron
- nonsense
- not stand any nonsenseidiom
- pitiless
- rigorously
- rigour
- roundly
- rulesomethingwith an iron hand/fistidiom
- severe
- severely
- severity
- sharp
- sharply
- sharpness
- sound
- stern
- sternly
- sternness
- stiffly
- strict
- strictly
- strictness
- take a hard line onsomeone/somethingidiom