stern

stern is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The black tern. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The black tern.
2. superlative. Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
3. transitive verb. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
4. transitive verb. The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
5. transitive verb. Fig.: The post of management or direction.
6. transitive verb. The hinder part of anything.
7. transitive verb. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
8. adjective. Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
9. noun. the rear part of a ship

   Synonyms: poop, quarter, tail

10. noun. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

    "he deserves a good kick in the butt"

    "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

    Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny

11. noun. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
12. adjective. severe and unremitting in making demands

    "an exacting instructor"

    "a stern disciplinarian"

    Synonyms: exacting, strict

13. adjective. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

    "an austere expression"

    "a stern face"

    Synonyms: austere

14. adjective. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

    "grim determination"

    "grim necessity"

    Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

15. adjective. severely simple

    "a stark interior"

    Synonyms: austere, severe, stark

Synonyms

poop, quarter, tail, arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump, seat

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stern:

ernst, nerts, rents, terns

Common word forms

sterns, sternal, sterned, sterner, sternly, sternest, sternful, sternness

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for STERN lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.