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harsh
[ hahrsh ]
adjective
- ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect:
harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere:
a harsh life; a harsh master.
Synonyms: bad-tempered, acrimonious, brutal, unkind, unfeeling, hard, brusque
- physically uncomfortable; desolate; stark:
a harsh land.
Synonyms: rough
- unpleasant to the ear; grating; strident:
a harsh voice; a harsh sound.
Synonyms: unharmonious, dissonant, discordant
- unpleasantly rough, ragged, or coarse to the touch:
a harsh surface.
- jarring to the eye or to the esthetic sense; unrefined; crude; raw:
harsh colors.
- unpleasant to the taste or sense of smell; bitter; acrid:
a harsh flavor; a harsh odor.
harsh
/ hɑːʃ /
adjective
- rough or grating to the senses
- stern, severe, or cruel
verb
- slang.tr to cause (a state of elation) to be diminished or ended (esp in the phrases harsh someone's mellow and harsh someone's buzz )
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Derived Forms
- ˈharshly, adverb
- ˈharshness, noun
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Other Words From
- harshly adverb
- harshness noun
- over·harsh adjective
- over·harshly adverb
- over·harshness noun
- un·harsh adjective
- un·harshly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of harsh1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of harsh1
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Example Sentences
Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
And, she added, “In other neighborhoods, I feel they are a little harsh.”
Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.
Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.
But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved.
Where these overtones are interfered with by any imperfection in the instrument the result is a harsh or imperfect sound.
A car conductor is instructed to treat passengers civilly and to use no harsh means with them, save in extreme cases.
In the humour her spouse was then in she had better have remained silent—she told him, that he was harsh and unjust.
“He hath told us already, Princess,” said the other, his harsh accents sounding more like the snarl of a wolf than a human voice.
He was considered a harsh Governor because his martial law administration was characterized by severe punishment for wrongdoing.
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