Synonyms of the word

stern

• adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
• adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
• n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
• n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
• n. The hinder part of anything.
• n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• n. A bird, the black tern.

arse

• n. (dated in New England, current in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, now slang) The buttocks or…
• n. (chiefly Britain, pejorative slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

ass

• n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
• n. (slang) A stupid person.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
• n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
• n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
• n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.

austere

• adj. Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
• adj. Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy.

back

• adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
• adj. (not comparable) Not current.
• adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
• adj. In arrear; overdue.
• adj. Moving or operating backward.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
• adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
• adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
• adv. In a manner that impedes.
• adv. In a reciprocal manner.
• n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
• n. That which is farthest away from the front.
• n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
• n. A support or resource in reserve.
• n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
• n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
• n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
• n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
• v. (transitive) To support.
• v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
• v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
• v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
• v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
• v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
• v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
• v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
• v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
• v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
• v. To row backward with (oars).
• n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
• n. A ferryboat.

backside

• n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.

behind

• prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
• prep. To the back of.
• prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
• prep. responsible for.
• prep. In support of.
• prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
• adv. At the back part; in the rear.
• adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
• adv. Overdue, in arrears.
• adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
• adv. existing afterwards.
• adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
• adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
• adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
• n. the rear, back-end.
• n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
• n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
• n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…

bottom

• n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
• n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
• n. The buttocks or anus.
• n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
• n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
• n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
• n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A bottom quark.
• n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
• n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
• n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
• n. An abyss.
• n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
• n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
• v. To fall to the lowest point.
• v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
• v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
• v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
• v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
• adj. The lowest or last place or position.

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

buns

• n. plural of bun.
• n. (informal) buttocks.

butt

• n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
• n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
• n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
• n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
• v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
• v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
• n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
• n. A thrust in fencing.
• n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
• n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
• n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

buttocks

• n. plural of buttock.

can

• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
• n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
• n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
• n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
• n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
• n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
• n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison.
• n. (slang) Headphones.
• n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
• n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
• v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
• v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
• v. To shut up.
• v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

demanding

• adj. Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
• v. present participle of demand.

derriere

• n. (humorous) bottom, bum.

exacting

• adj. Making excessive demands; difficult to satisfy.
• adj. (of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
• adj. (of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.
• v. present participle of exact.

fanny

• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.
• n. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).
• n. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.

fiddler

• n. One who plays the fiddle.
• n. One who fiddles.
• n. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and…
• n. The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); so called because it continually oscillates its…

fundament

• n. Foundation.
• n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
• n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

hindquarters

• n. plural of hindquarter.

implacable

• adj. Not able to be placated or appeased.
• adj. Adamant; immovable.

inexorable

• adj. Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting.
• adj. Impossible to stop or prevent; inevitable.
• adj. Adamant; severe.

keister

• n. (slang) The anus or buttocks.
• n. (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
• n. (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
• v. (slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.

nates

• n. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals;…
• n. The buttocks.
• n. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

nonindulgent

• adj. Not indulgent.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

poop

• n. The stern of a ship.
• v. (transitive) To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
• v. (transitive) To embark a ship over the stern.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To break wind.
• v. (intransitive) To defecate.
• n. (often childish) Fecal matter, feces.
• n. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
• n. (US, dated) information, facts.
• interj. (childish, euphemistic) Expressing annoyed disappointment.
• n. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
• v. (transitive) To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
• n. A slothful person.

posterior

• adj. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
• adj. Following in order or in time.
• adj. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
• adj. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
• n. (euphemistic) The buttocks.

prat

• n. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
• adj. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.
• n. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
• n. (Britain, slang) A fool.
• n. (slang) The female genitals.

quarter

• adj. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
• adj. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
• adj. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
• n. Any fourth of something, particularly.
• n. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly.
• v. (transitive) To divide into quarters.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
• v. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
• v. (transitive) To quartersaw.
• v. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut…

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

relentless

• adj. Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
• adj. Unremitting, steady and persistent.

rump

• n. The hindquarters of an animal.
• n. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
• n. The buttocks.
• n. Remnant, as in rump parliament.

seat

• n. Something to be sat upon.
• n. A location or site.
• n. The starting point of a fire.
• n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
• v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
• v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
• v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
• v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
• v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
• v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
• v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
• v. To put a seat or bottom in.

severe

• adj. Very bad or intense.
• adj. Strict or harsh.
• adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

stark

• adj. (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
• adj. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
• adj. (rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
• adj. Stiff, rigid.
• adj. Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
• adj. Complete, absolute, full.
• adv. starkly; entirely, absolutely.
• v. (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.

strict

• adj. Strained; drawn close; tight.
• adj. Tense; not relaxed.
• adj. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.
• adj. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
• adj. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
• adj. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
• adj. Severe in discipline.

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tush

• n. (now dialectal) A tusk.
• n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
• n. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
• interj. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
• v. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang) Alternative form of tosheroon.

unappeasable

• adj. not able to be appeased or satisfied.

unforgiving

• adj. Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy.
• adj. Having no allowance for weakness.

unrelenting

• adj. Not relenting; having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful; unyielding; inflexibly…

violinist

• n. A person who plays the violin.