harsh

Adjective Satellite

• unpleasantly stern
  • "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"
• 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"
• unkind or cruel or uncivil
  • "had harsh words"
  • "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"
• severe
  • "a harsh penalty"
• sharply disagreeable; rigorous
  • "the harsh facts of court delays"

Adjective

• Unpleasantly severe, strict, or unfeeling.
• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

Adj

• Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
• Severe or cruel.

Verb

• To negatively criticize.
• To put a damper on (a mood).

Examples

• Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
• harsh decision
• harsh penalty
• harsh rule
• harsh ruling
• harsh teacher
• Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
• The HARSH rules of tournament Scrabble mean no errors are forgiven.
• They're always harshing on the plan, but we're still going through with it.

Synonyms

abrasive, coarse, rough, asperous, callous, cold, cold-eyed, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, gimped, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, irregular, jagged, jaggy, rigorous, rockhearted, rugged, rugose, salebrous, scabrous, scraggy, severe, shagged, squarrose, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, uneven, unmoved, unsmooth, unsympathetic

Antonyms

fine, genteel

Related Words

HARSHLY

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