Utter vs Severe - What's the difference?

utter | severe |

As adjectives the difference between utter and severe

is that utter is while severe is severe, harsh.

As a verb utter

is to say.

As an adverb utter

is (label) further out; further away, outside.

utter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; compare (outer).

Adjective

(-)

* Chapman

By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.

* Spenser

As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

* Milton

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

(obsolete) Outward.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness

* Atterbury

They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

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Synonyms

* see also

Derived terms

* utterly * utterness * uttermost

Etymology 2

Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.

Verb

(en verb)

To say

Don't you utter another word!

To use the voice

Sally uttered a sigh of relief.

The dog uttered a growling bark.

To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved

Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.

To make (a noise)

Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.

(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation

Derived terms

* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterable

Etymology 3

(etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)

(label) Further out; further away, outside.

*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:

*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

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severe

English

Adjective

(er)

Very bad or intense.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

Strict or harsh.

Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

Synonyms

* brutal * extreme * hard * harsh * intense * rigorous * serious

Antonyms

* (very bad or intense) mild * (very bad or intense) minor * (strict or harsh) lenient

Derived terms

* severely (adverb) * severity (noun) * severeness (noun)

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