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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked, brutish, demoniac, hard-hearted, inhumane, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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