adjective. Disagreeable to one of the senses, as.

adjective. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing.

adjective. Disagreeable to the sense of sight.

adjective. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch.

adjective. Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival.

adjective. Severe, cruel, or exacting.

adjective. Disagreeable to the mind or feelings.

adjective. Expressing displeasure or disapproval.

To sound harshly; crack.

Rough to the touch or to any of the senses; sharp or sour to the taste, discordant to the ear, inharmonious to the eye, etc.; grating; rasping; acrid; irritating: as, a harsh surface; harsh fruit; a harsh voice; a harsk combination of colors.

Hard or severe in effect; of such a nature as to be repellent from any physical point of view.

Repugnant to the mind or the sensibilities; mentally or morally forbidding; hard to bear, endure, resolve upon, etc.

Austere in character or severe in action; stern; hard; unkind.

Synonyms and Severe, Rigorous, etc. (see austere); acrimonious, ill-natured, ill-tempered, uncivil, ungracious, churlish, brutal.

adjective. Rough; disagreeable; grating.

adjective. disagreeable to the touch.

adjective. disagreeable to the taste.

adjective. disagreeable to the ear.

adjective. Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

adjective. Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

adjective. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.

adjective. Severe or cruel.

verb. To negatively criticize.

verb. to put a damper on (a mood).

adjective. unpleasantly stern

adjective. disagreeable to the senses

adjective. sharply disagreeable; rigorous

adjective. severe

adjective. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

adjective. unkind or cruel or uncivil

"JOHN KING, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Don't know if I use the term harsh battle, but Many think the president has to strike a new tone in the relationships."

genteel  

coarse-grained  disagreeable  farinaceous  grainy  granular  

harshly  harshness  

Marche  Marsh  marsh  

hard  loud  rough  sharp  stern  

Doric  Draconian  Spartan  Spartanic  abrupt