What is another word for severest?

Pronunciation: [səvˈi͡əɹəst] (IPA)

There are several synonyms that can be used in place of the word "severest". The word "harshest" can be used to describe something that is excessively strict or severe, while "most intense" can be used to refer to something that is extremely strong or severe in its effects. "Most extreme" can be used to describe something that is the most intense or severe of its kind, while "most drastic" can be used to refer to something that is very extreme or forceful in its actions or results. Other synonyms for "severest" include "strictest", "toughest", "most stringent", and "most rigorous".

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Usage examples for Severest

As we shall see before we complete our study of ethics, everything brings temptation with it; and the best things bring the severest and subtlest temptations; and if we would withdraw from temptation, we should have to withdraw from the world.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
Harland could not conceal his chagrin at this second rejection, and accused Louise of an unjust preference to his rival; against whom he vowed the severest vengeance.
"The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I"
Sophia Reeve
But a man like Flaxman, who had possessed himself by severest study as a young man of the means by which his powers were developed, would, I think, have been sure to warn Mrs. Leech of the difference between the teaching that would be mischievous, and that which is proved to be indispensable by the universal practice of the greatest painters.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith

Famous quotes with Severest

  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
  • Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
    Charles Buxton
  • Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
    Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
    Charles Eastman
  • The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
    Benjamin Franklin

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