Word Meanings - HARSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
Additional info about word: HARSH
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARSH)
- Abrupt
- Sudden
- steep
- precipitous
- craggy
- coarse
- curt
- blunt
- violent
- harsh
- unceremonious
- rugged
- rough
- Acrid
- Harsh
- sour
- Arbitrary
- Tyrannical
- dictatorial
- imperious
- bearing
- overbearing
- selfish
- absolute
- irresponsible
- tyrannous
- domineering
- peremptory
- Austere
- Hard
- rigid
- stern
- severe
- morose
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- strict
- rigorous
- relentless
- Bitter
- sharp
- tart
- acrimonious
- sarcastic
- sad
- afflictive
- intense
- stinging
- pungent
- acrid
- cutting
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HARSH)
Related words: (words related to HARSH)
- ROUGHING-IN
The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it. - ROUGHT
imp. of Reach. - STERNFOREMOST
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell. - ROUGHHEWN
1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon. - STERNUTATORY
Sternutative. -- n. - BITTERWEED
A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray. - STINGBULL
The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - STING RAY; STINGRAY
Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American - ROUGHLEG
Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe, - TYRANNOUS
Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr"an*nous*ly, adv. - SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - ROUGHINGS
Rowen. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - ACRIDLY
In an acid manner. - STRICT
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts - STERNOHYOID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - BITTERS
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped. - ROUGHSHOD
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - DRUGGET
perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose. - DRUGGER
A druggist. Burton. - WASTING
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - PERSISTING
Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv. - EVERLASTINGLY
In an everlasting manner. - ASTRICT
To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to - BOA CONSTRICTOR
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.