asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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(noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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perseveringly | (adverb) with perseverance | - |
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sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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seven | (adjective) being one more than six | Synonyms: 7, vii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with seven pips on the face | Synonyms: seven-spot |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, sevener, VII |
sevener | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, seven, VII |
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sevenfold | (adjective) having seven units or components | Synonyms: septuple, seven-fold |
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(adverb) seven times | - |
sevens | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, parliament |
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sevensome | (noun) seven people considered as a unit | Synonyms: septet, septette |
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seventeen | (adjective) being one more than sixteen | Synonyms: 17, xvii |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one | Synonyms: 17, XVII |
seventeenth | (adjective) coming next after the sixteenth in position | Synonyms: 17th |
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(noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | - |
seventh | (adjective) coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position | Synonyms: 7th |
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(noun) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it | - |
(noun) one part in seven equal parts | Synonyms: one-seventh |
(noun) position seven in a countable series of things | - |
seventhly | (adverb) in the seventh place | - |
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seventies | (noun) the time of life between 70 and 80 | Synonyms: mid-seventies |
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(noun) the decade from 1970 to 1979 | Synonyms: 1970s |
seventieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of seventy in counting order | Synonyms: 70th |
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(noun) position 70 in a countable series of things | - |
seventy | (adjective) being ten more than sixty | Synonyms: 70, lxx |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven | Synonyms: 70, LXX |
sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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(verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
severable | (adjective) capable of being divided or dissociated | Synonyms: dissociable, separable |
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several | (adjective) distinct and individual | - |
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(adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: respective, various |
(adjective) (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many | - |
severalise | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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(verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalize |
severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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(verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
severally | (adverb) apart from others | Synonyms: individually, on an individual basis, one by one, separately, singly |
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(adverb) individually or separately | Synonyms: independently |
(adverb) in the order given | Synonyms: respectively |
severalty | (noun) exclusive individual ownership | - |
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(noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, distinctness, separateness |
severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
severe | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious |
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(adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | Synonyms: terrible, wicked |
(adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, stark, stern |
(adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, knockout |
(adjective) very bad in degree or extent | - |
(adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: spartan |
severed | (adjective) detached by cutting | Synonyms: cut off |
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severely | (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, gravely, seriously |
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(adverb) with sternness; in a severe manner | Synonyms: sternly |
(adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: hard |
severeness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severity |
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(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness |
(noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity |
(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severity |
severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
(noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
(noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |