Definition of harsh

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Harsh (a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

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Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
Grit :: Grit (v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth..
Cruel :: Cruel (a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Rough :: Rough (n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions..
Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice..
Halsening :: Halsening (a.) Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.
Bray :: Bray (v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass..
Caterwaul :: Caterwaul (v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise..
Hoarse :: Hoarse (superl.) Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven..
Overrigorous :: Overrigorous (a.) Too rigorous; harsh.
Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..
Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..
Caterwauling :: Caterwauling (n.) The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats..
Screech :: Screech (v.) To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek..
Rough :: Rough (n.) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper..
Squaller :: Squall (n.) A loud scream; a harsh cry.
Discord :: Discord (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord..
Grate :: Grate (v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.
Stubby :: Stubborn (a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule..
Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily..
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