harsh
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
harsh/hɑːʃ/
▶adjective
- 1 unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.
- 2 cruel or severe.
■ (of reality or a fact) grim and unpalatable.
– derivatives
harshen verb,
harshly adverb,
harshness noun.
harshen verb,
harshly adverb,
harshness noun.
– origin ME: from Mid. Low Ger. harsch ‘rough’, lit. ‘hairy’, from haer ‘hair’.
'harsh' also found in these Oxford entries:
abrasive
- asperity
- biting
- bitter
- blare
- boot camp
- brassy
- bray
- brute
- cackle
- cacophony
- caw
- chat
- coarse
- cough
- creak
- deal
- discordant
- draconian
- easy
- euphemism
- exacerbate
- grating
- grind
- growl
- Gulag
- hard
- hatchet man
- heavy
- heavy metal
- hee-haw
- hoarse
- industrial
- inhospitable
- inquisitor
- jay
- mild
- mistle thrush
- oppressive
- opprobrium
- pitiless
- quack
- rasp
- raucous
- relent
- relentless
- rigorous
- rough
- roughly
