stern

Adjective

• severely simple
  • a stark interior
    

• severe and unremitting in making demands
  • an exacting instructor
    
  • a stern disciplinarian
    
  • strict standards
    

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  • grim determination
    
  • grim necessity
    
  • Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
    
  • relentless persecution
    
  • the stern demands of parenthood
    

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
  • an austere expression
    
  • a stern face
    

Noun

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • he deserves a good kick in the butt
    
  • are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
    

• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

• the rear part of a ship

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  austere , severe , stark , strict , exacting , grim , inexorable , relentless , unappeasable , unforgiving , unrelenting , buttocks , Stern , Isaac Stern , after part , quarter , poop , tail