Drastic vs Stern - What's the difference?
drastic | stern |
Extreme; severe.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Acting rapidly or violently.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
* (John Dryden)
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, title= Grim and forbidding in appearance.
* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
* , chapter=7
, title= (figurative) The post of management or direction.
* (William Shakespeare)
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
(l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)
As an adjective drastic
is extreme; severe.As a noun stern is
a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky.drastic
English
Alternative forms
* drastick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
stern
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Etymology 2
Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.Noun
(wikipedia stern) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- (Spenser)