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harsh - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: harsh
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rough, crude (to the senses)
Synonyms: acrid, astringent, bitter, bleak, cacophonous, clashing, coarse, cracked, craggy, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, grim, guttural, hard, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jarring, noisy, off-key*, rasping, raucous, rigid, rugged, rusty, severe, sharp, sour, strident, uneven, unrelenting, asperous, caterwauling, creaking, croaking, jangling, not smooth, out-of-key, out-of-tune, screeching, stridulous, tuneless, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical
Antonyms: easy, gentle, mild, peaceful, pleasing, smooth, soft
Main Entry: harsh
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, abusive
Synonyms: austere, bitter, brutal, cruel, discourteous, dour, grim, gruff, hairy*, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, mean, pitiless, punitive, relentless, rude, ruthless, severe, sharp, stern, stringent, tough, uncivil, unfeeling, ungracious, unkind, unpleasant, unrelenting, wicked, comfortless, cussed, hard-shell
Antonyms: courteous, kind, nice, polite
Main Entry: acerbic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bitter, sharp, or sour
Synonyms: acidic, acrid, astringent, caustic, harsh, sharp, tart
Main Entry: arduous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, hard to endure
Synonyms: backbreaking, burdensome, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, exhausting, fatiguing, no picnic
Antonyms: easy, facile, motivating
Main Entry: authoritarian
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domineering
Synonyms: absolute, authoritative, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, dogmatic, harsh, imperious, magisterial, rigid, severe, strict, totalitarian, tyrannical, unyielding
Notes: authoritarian is tyrannical while authoritative commands respect
Antonyms: democratic, liberal
Main Entry: brassy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, loud to the senses
Synonyms: arrant, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, blaring, overbold, unabashed, unblushing
Antonyms: careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent
Main Entry: churlish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, boorish
Synonyms: base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy*, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, cussed, lowbred, unneighborly
Antonyms: gentle, nice, pleasant, polite
Main Entry: cold-hearted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfeeling
Synonyms: cold, detached, hard, harsh, heartless, indifferent, insensitive, uncaring, unemotional, unfriendly, unkind, unsympathetic, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, unloving
Antonyms: warm-hearted
Main Entry: crabby/crabbed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in a bad mood
Synonyms: acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic
Antonyms: happy
Main Entry: craggy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: jagged
Synonyms: broken, harsh, precipitous, rocky, rough, rugged, scabrous, stony, uneven, asperous, cragged, rock-bound, scraggy, unlevel, unsmooth
Antonyms: flat, smooth
Main Entry: discordant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not in harmony; conflicting
Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic, cacophonous, clashing, contradictory, contrary, different, disagreeing, discrepant, dissonant, divergent, grating, harsh, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, jarring, opposite, quarreling, strident, uncongenial, at odds, contrarient, inconsonant, jangling, on a sour note, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmixable
Antonyms: agreeable, agreeing, cooperating, harmonious, concordant
Main Entry: dour
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gloomy, grim
Synonyms: bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheery, happy
Main Entry: drastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: severe, extreme
Synonyms: desperate, dire, exorbitant, extravagant, forceful, harsh, immoderate, radical, strong
Antonyms: calm, collected, easy, mild
Main Entry: exacting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: demanding
Synonyms: burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking
Antonyms: giving, lending
Main Entry: gaunt
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: skinny
Synonyms: angular, anorexic, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned, scrawny, skeleton, spare, thin, wasted, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, peaky, pinched, scraggy, skeletal, skin and bones
Antonyms: plump, thick, well-nourished
Main Entry: grating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritating; scraping
Synonyms: annoying, disagreeable, discordant, dissonant, dry, grinding, harsh, hoarse, irksome, jarring, offensive, rasping, raucous, rough, shrill, squeaky, strident, unpleasant, vexatious, displeasing, harsh-sounding, stridulent, stridulous
Antonyms: pleasing, soothing
Main Entry: grim
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Synonyms: austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny
Main Entry: grueling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, taxing
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, brutal, demanding, excruciating, fierce, grinding, hairy*, hard, harsh, heavy*, laborious, punishing, severe, stiff, strenuous, tiring, trying, chastening, crushing, exhausting, fatiguing, racking, torturous
Antonyms: easy, facile
Main Entry: guttural
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deep in sound
Synonyms: grating, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, inarticulate, low, rasping, rough, sepulchral, thick, throaty, glottal, gravelly, growling
Antonyms: dulcet
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