the rear part of a ship

[ Syn: after part , quarter , poop , tail ]

United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

[ Syn: stern , isaac stern ]

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?

[ Syn: buttocks , nates , arse , butt , backside , bum , buns , can , fundament , hindquarters , hind end , keister , posterior , prat , rear , rear end , rump , seat , tail , tail end , tooshie , tush , bottom , behind , derriere , fanny , ass ]

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; an austere expression; a stern face

[ Syn: austere ]

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; grim determination; grim necessity; Russias final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood

[ Syn: grim , inexorable , relentless , unappeasable , unforgiving , unrelenting ]

severe and unremitting in making demands; an exacting instructor; a stern disciplinarian; strict standards

[ Syn: strict , exacting ]

severely simple; a stark interior

[ Syn: austere , severe , stark ]