Stern vs Unkind - What's the difference?
stern | unkind | Synonyms |
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
* (John Dryden)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Grim and forbidding in appearance.
* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
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, 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)
(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' ,
* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition,
* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays ,
As adjectives the difference between stern and unkind
is that stern is having a hardness and severity of nature or manner while unkind is having no race or kindred; childless.As a noun stern
is the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.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)
Antonyms
* bowDerived terms
* from stem to stern * sternpostSee also
* keelEtymology 3
(etyl)Anagrams
* * * * ---- ==Mòcheno==Noun
(m)References
*unkind
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- (Shakespeare)
page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”
page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
