stern, grave, forbidding; dignified, stately / strict, unforgiving / tight, close, without gaps / harsh, tough, extreme, severe, hard to withstand (said of natural phenomena)

(rare, archaic) wondrous, miraculous, splendid, sublime / (rare, archaic) dignified, solemn, stern, noble, refined / (rare, archaic) beautiful, pretty

the way in which something is tightly packed or close together without gaps

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

an academic or scholarly book or reference, a tome (emphasis on scholarly content)

doctoral thesis; dissertation

indie self-published booklet; fan magazine; fanzine

short essay