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harsh
adjective as in rough, crude (to the senses)
Strong match
Weak matches
acrid, asperous, astringent, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, guttural, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raucous, rugged, rusty, screeching, sour, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting
adjective as in nasty, abusive
Strongest matches
bitter, brutal, cruel, grim, hard, punitive, relentless, rude, ruthless, severe, sharp, stern, stringent, tough, unkind, unpleasant
Weak matches
austere, comfortless, cussed, discourteous, dour, gruff, hairy, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-shell, mean, pitiless, uncivil, unfeeling, ungracious, unrelenting, wicked
Example Sentences
It was a harsh assesment after such a dazzling display - which the 74,611 inside Wembley Stadium no doubt enjoyed - but could Wiegman have given more minutes to some of England's unfamiliar stars?
The harsh reality is when your friend cosigned this loan, he agreed to step in if the borrower could not or would not pay.
Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.
In April the defendants were handed harsh prison terms of up to 66 years, without defence arguments being heard.
But Mexico were successful in a late appeal just before the finals kicked off, claiming the suspension was too harsh.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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