Harsh
[hɑːʃ] or [hɑrʃ]
Definition
(adj.) sharply disagreeable; rigorous; 'the harsh facts of court delays'; 'an abrasive character' .
(adj.) severe; 'a harsh penalty' .
(adj.) unkind or cruel or uncivil; 'had harsh words'; 'a harsh and unlovable old tyrant'; 'a rough answer' .
(adj.) unpleasantly stern; 'wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus'; 'the nomad life is rough and hazardous' .
(adj.) disagreeable to the senses; 'the harsh cry of a blue jay'; 'harsh cognac'; 'the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes'; 'harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway' .
Inputed by Jesse--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Rough; disagreeable; grating
(a.) disagreeable to the touch.
(a.) disagreeable to the taste.
(a.) disagreeable to the ear.
(a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
(a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
Checker: Wilmer
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Rough.[2]. Sour, acrid, tart, crabbed, hard, biting, sharp, caustic, corrosive.[3]. Grating, discordant, jarring.[4]. Crabbed, morose, stern, severe, austere, acrimonious, ill-tempered, out of humor, out of temper.[5]. Rude, uncivil, bluff, blunt, gruff, ungracious, churlish, bearish, brutal.
Typed by Josephine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rough, grating, severe, sharp, rugged, acrimonious, abusive, soul-jarring,rancorous, rigorous, discordant, gruff
ANT:Smooth, melodious, lenient, suave, bland, gentle, genial, kindly
Typed by Freddie
Definition
adj. rough: bitter: jarring: abusive: severe: unkind.—v.t. Harsh′en to render harsh.—adv. Harsh′ly.—n. Harsh′ness.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- He was very imperious, and harsh to the children. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her attitude toward the captive was most harsh and brutal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this harsh temper may be found but not in the majority of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- I approached and knocked at the door, which was instantly opened by a tall, gaunt woman with a harsh, forbidding face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was one of those colourless days when everything looks heavy and harsh. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His last words had left a bad, harsh impression; he, at least, had failed in the disposing of a chance he was lord of. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When they had encountered each other's glance several times in this way, the stranger, in a harsh, deep voice, broke silence. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A harsher man would rejoice now in the power I have of turning upon your aunt by going no further in the business. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The day I mean, said Yeobright, his voice growing louder and harsher, was the day you shut the door against my mother and killed her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To hear the woman whom--no harsher name than folly given! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was to be no reconstruction, but only a restoration of the old order--in the harsher form necessitated by the poverty of the new time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
- I remembered in one of her harshest moments a quotation of mine had roused her to anger and disdain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Nicolas