severe

adj

/sɪˈvɪə/UK/sɪˈvɪɹ/US/sɪˈviːɹ/CA

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).

derived from severus — “severe, serious, grave in demeanor”

Definitions

1
Very bad or intense.
- In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
- Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
2
Strict or harsh.
- a severe taskmaster
3
Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
- a severe old maiden aunt
- severe clothing
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1. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonsevere, oversevere, semisevere, severe acute respiratory syndrome, severe clear, severe combined immunodeficiency, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, severe gale, severely, severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, severeness, severe tea, severity, supersevere, ultrasevere, unsevere

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at severe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at severe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at severe

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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