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Harsh   /hɑrʃ/   Listen
Harsh

adjective
(compar. harsher; superl. harshest)
1.
Unpleasantly stern.  Synonym: rough.  "The nomad life is rough and hazardous"
2.
Disagreeable to the senses.  "Harsh cognac" , "The harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes" , "Harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
3.
Of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles.  Synonym: coarse.  "Coarse sand" , "A coarse weave"
4.
Unkind or cruel or uncivil.  Synonym: rough.  "A harsh and unlovable old tyrant" , "A rough answer"
5.
Severe.
6.
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous.  Synonym: abrasive.  "An abrasive character"



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"Harsh" Quotes from Famous Books



... demonstrative manners than his quiet partner. He who entered second was shorter and stronger-built, and had evidently seen a longer term of life. His hair, plentifully streaked with grey, was thinned to slight baldness on the summit of the head; his features, otherwise rather strong and harsh, wore an expression of benevolence which redeemed them; his eyes, dark grey, were sharp and piercing. When he took off his hat, he carefully drew forth and put on a black skull-cap, which gave him a semi-priestly appearance. ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt

... search of Claude, who had agreed to meet him at the Exhibition in Trafalgar Square. Thither Stangrave rolled away in his cab, his heart full of many thoughts. Marie's words about him, though harsh and exaggerated, were on the whole true. She had fascinated him utterly. To marry her was now the one object of his life: she had awakened in him, as he had confessed, noble desires to be useful: but the discovery that he ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley

... share in making the home atmosphere, their mission being to soften harsh angles and outlines and warm cold, stiff plainness into comfort. Window curtains act as an equalizer in bringing the very best out of both light and dark rooms, serving at the same time as a partial background for their ...
— The Complete Home • Various

... the busy street, hoping to catch a glimpse of her who once had made his world. But his watch was in vain, and now he had sat down to write, throwing aside sheet after sheet, as he thought its beginning too cold, too harsh, or too affectionate. He was about making up his mind not to write at all, but to let matters take their course, when a knock at his mother's door, and the announcement that a lady wished to ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes

... came under the sway of various empires including the Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, and Ottoman. During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey instituted a policy of forced resettlement coupled with other harsh practices that resulted in an estimated 1 million Armenian deaths. The eastern area of Armenia was ceded by the Ottomans to Russia in 1828; this portion declared its independence in 1918, but was ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States


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