Harsh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch. See Synonyms at rough.
  • adj. Disagreeable to the senses, especially to the sense of hearing.
  • adj. Severe, cruel, or exacting: harsh punishment; a harsh overseer.
  • adj. Unpleasant or uncomfortable: a harsh wilderness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
  • adj. Severe or cruel.
  • v. To negatively criticize.
  • v. to put a damper on (a mood).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Rough; disagreeable; grating.
  • adj. disagreeable to the touch.
  • adj. disagreeable to the taste.
  • adj. disagreeable to the ear.
  • adj. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
  • adj. Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rough to the touch or to any of the senses; sharp or sour to the taste, discordant to the ear, inharmonious to the eye, etc.; grating; rasping; acrid; irritating: as, a harsh surface; harsh fruit; a harsh voice; a harsk combination of colors.
  • Hard or severe in effect; of such a nature as to be repellent from any physical point of view.
  • Repugnant to the mind or the sensibilities; mentally or morally forbidding; hard to bear, endure, resolve upon, etc.
  • Austere in character or severe in action; stern; hard; unkind.
  • Synonyms and Severe, Rigorous, etc. (see austere); acrimonious, ill-natured, ill-tempered, uncivil, ungracious, churlish, brutal.
  • To sound harshly; crack.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unpleasantly stern
  • adj. disagreeable to the senses
  • adj. sharply disagreeable; rigorous
  • adj. severe
  • adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
  • adj. unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • Equivalent
    unpleasant    disagreeable    heavy    granular    granulated    large-grained    farinaceous    gritty    granulose    loose   
    Antonym
    genteel   
    Form
    harshly    harshness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rough    disagreeable    grating    austere    crabbed    morose    abusive    severe   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Marche    Marsh    marsh   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sharp    loud    rough    hard    stern