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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
One young person said living in poverty was a "hard place to grow up", but added: "It definitely makes you a better person... experiencing the harsh reality of life".
Value stocks generally have had fewer beats than growth, but growth stocks that miss face harsher penalties from the market, likely because more is expected of them.
The prisoners and detainees emerged with their heads shaved, looking gaunt and pale in the afternoon sun — a measure, many said, of the harsh treatment they received.
But in her four memoirs, she safely bared all in print, openly confronting her harsh inner critic, her battle with bulimia, and — yes, Alvy — her musings on death.
If enacted, the 100% tariffs would represent one of the harshest trade penalties ever imposed between the world’s two largest economies — and could redefine the trajectory of U.S.–China relations for years to come.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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