'Sternness' definitions:
Definition of 'sternness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
noun
Uncompromising resolution [syn: sternness, strictness]
Definition of 'Sternness'
From: GCIDE
- Sternness \Stern"ness\, n. The quality or state of being stern. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Sternness'
- By the stern,
- Stern,
- Sterned,
- Sternly,
- sterne,
- From stem to stern,
- Pink stern,
- Square stern,
- Stern board,
- Stern chase,
- Stern chaser,
- Stern fast,
- Stern frame,
- Stern knee,
- Stern port,
- Stern sheets,
- Stern wheel,
- Torpedo stern,
- Tunnel stern,
- isaac stern,
- laurence sterne,
- stern gallery,
- Pink-sterned,
- Stern-wheel,
- Stern-wheeler,
- austere forbidding stern