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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   stern

   • IPA[stərn]

   美式

   • adj.
     (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline；(of an act or statement) strict and severe; using extreme measures or terms
2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline a smile transformed his stern face Mama looked stern 同義詞 serious, unsmiling, frowning, poker-faced, severe, ... 更多forbidding, grim, unfriendly, somber, grave, sober, austere, dour, stony, flinty, steely, unrelenting, unyielding, unforgiving, unbending, unsympathetic, disapproving, rareRhadamanthine, informalboot-faced反義詞 genial, friendly
   • ▪ (of an act or statement) strict and severe; using extreme measures or terms stern measures to restrict growth of traffic 同義詞 strict, severe, stringent, harsh, drastic, ... 更多hard, tough, fierce, extreme, rigorous, rigid, exacting, demanding, uncompromising, unsparing, inflexible, authoritarian, draconian, informalbadass, solid反義詞 lenient, lax
   • ▪ (of competition or opposition) putting someone or something under extreme pressure the past year has been a stern test of the ability of local industry

   片語

   • be made of sterner stuff
   • the sterner sex