Thesaurus: harsh

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1. a. Rough; disagreeable; grating
2. a. disagreeable to the touch.
3. a. disagreeable to the taste.
4. a. disagreeable to the ear.
5. a. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
6. a. Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
7. adj. unpleasantly stern
8. adj. unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses
9. adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
10. adj. unkind or cruel or uncivil
11. adj. sharply disagreeable; rigorous
12. 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:(a) To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. (b) To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. (c) To the ear. "Harsh din." Milton. 2. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden. 3. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.