Synonyms Dictionary
2. excellent, exceptional, superior, standout, outstanding, striking; superlative, supreme, transcendent, sovereign, the best; matchless, peerless, nonpareil, perfect, classic, first-class; choice, prime, select, very good, Australian Si bosker, Scot. and North Eng. braw; fine, admirable, worthy, estimable, notable.
3. first-rate, Inf. tiptop, Inf. A-l, Inf. A number 1; extraordinary, very remarkable, SI. bang-up, Inf. smashing, wonderful, splendid. stem1, adj. 1. strict, demanding, exacting, stringent, critical, unsparing, unremitting, rigid, harsh, severe, rigorous, hard; firm, steadfast, determined, resolute, resolved; uncompromising, adamant, relentless, unrelenting, inflexible, immovable, obdurate, recalcitrant, unyielding, hardlined, inexorable, implacable, unbending, flinty; obstinate, stubborn, willful; unsympathetic, unfeeling, hard-hearted, hard-boiled, ruthless, pitiless, unkind, unmerciful, inclement, coldblooded, cold, cruel.
2. overbearing, coercive, ironhanded, ironfisted, dictatorial, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical, despotic, autocratic; excessive, extreme, drastic, Draconian, exigent, extortionate, arbitrary, unreasonable.
3. austere, stark, grave, sober, somber; stiff, ascetic, Spartan, strait-laced, puritanical; sour, vinegary, acetous; grim, forbidding, dour, gaunt, frowning, saturnine, gloomy, taciturn; fierce, rough, craggy; ungentle, gruff, churlish, crabbed, surly, rude, crusty; brusque, short, curt, blunt, bluff.
4. formidable, laborious, rugged, toilsome, difficult, burdensome, Herculean, operose; irksome, distressing, painful, afflictive.
5. sharp, biting, piercing, trenchant, acrid, stinging, acerbic, caustic, mordant, cutting, virulent, bitter, venomous. stern2, n. 1. (both of a ship) afterpart, poop; rear, back, tail, end, heel, caboose.
2. Informal. See buttocks.
3. from stem to stern fore and aft, from head to foot or toe, from head to tail, from top to bottom, from cover to cover, from A to Z, Brit, from A to Zed; completely, totally, all the way through, throughout; comprehensively, thoroughly, backward and forward, inside out, from the ground up, soundly, solidly.
stew, v. 1. simmer, seethe, boil; fricasse.
2. Informal, fret, fuss, worry, agonize, torture oneself, writhe, lose sleep over, toss and turn, stay awake nights; pout, frown, sulk, brood over, mope; chafe, fume, burn, sizzle, smolder, stir, Inf. do a slow burn, Inf. steam up, SI. work oneself up into a sweat or lather.
3. swelter, perspire, sweat, SI. sweat bullets or blood, drip with sweat. -n. 4. ragout, salmi, salmagundi, slumgullion, hash, mash, fricasse, paella, bouillabaisse, U.S. chowder, olio, olla-podrida, Sp. olla, (in China, India, etc.) chow-chow, U.S. SI. mulligan. '
5. Informal, fuss, fluster, flurry, dither, twitter, fret, bother, pother, Inf. tizzy, Archaic, pucker, steward, n. 1. fiduciary, guardian, Brit, warden; trustee, keeper, custodian, caretaker, curator.
2. majordomo, butler, housekeeper, maitre d'hdtel, chamberlain, (in the middle ages) seneschal, head or chief servant; (in Great Britain) bailiff, Scot. factor.
3. hostess, stewardess, waitress; waiter. stick*, n. 1. branch, limb, stem, bough, spray, switch, twig; shoot, sprout, runner, tendril, scion.
2. kindling, fagot, tinder; firewood, brush, brushwood, driftwood.
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