Usually means: Intense, extreme in degree, harsh.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word severe:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. severe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. severe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. severe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. severe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. severe: Vocabulary.com
  6. severe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Severe, severe: Wiktionary
  8. severe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. severe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. severe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. severe: Dictionary.com
  12. severe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Severe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Severe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. severe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. severe: Rhymezone
  17. severe, svre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. severe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. severe: Free Dictionary
  20. severe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Severe, severe: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. severe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. severe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. severe: Wordnik
  25. Severe: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. severe: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. severe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. severe: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. severe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. severe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very bad or intense.
adjective:  Strict or harsh.
adjective:  Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
noun:  A surname.

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