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Definitions for Harsh

[1] ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
[2] grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere: a harsh life; a harsh master.
[3] physically uncomfortable; desolate; stark: a harsh land.
[4] unpleasant to the ear; grating; strident: a harsh voice; a harsh sound.
[5] unpleasantly rough, ragged, or coarse to the touch: a harsh surface.
[6] jarring to the eye or to the esthetic sense; unrefined; crude; raw: harsh colors.
[7] unpleasant to the taste or sense of smell; bitter; acrid: a harsh flavor; a harsh odor.
[8] rough or grating to the senses
[9] stern, severe, or cruel
[10] (tr) slang to cause (a state of elation) to be diminished or ended (esp in the phrases harsh someone's mellow and harsh someone's buzz )

Words related to Harsh

hard, grim, severe, rigid, sharp, bitter, strident, bleak, stringent, tough, unkind, rude, ruthless, cruel, brutal, relentless, unpleasant, punitive, stern, coarse

Words nearby Harsh

harrow, harrowing, harrumph, harry, harry potter, harsh, harshen, harslet, harstad, hart, hart's-tongue

Origin of Harsh

1250–1300; Middle English harsk; cognate with German harsch, Danish harsk rancid

Other words from Harsh

harsh·ly , adverb
harsh·ness , noun
o·ver·harsh , adjective
o·ver·harsh·ly , adverb
o·ver·harsh·ness , noun
un·harsh , adjective
un·harsh·ly , adverb

Word origin for Harsh

C16: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Middle Low German harsch, Norwegian harsk rancid

Synonyms for Harsh

bitter, bleak, grim, hard, rigid, severe, sharp, strident, coarse, acrid, asperous, astringent, cacophonous, caterwauling, clashing, cracked, craggy, creaking, croaking, disagreeing, discordant, dissonant, disturbing, earsplitting, flat, glaring, grating, guttural, hoarse, incompatible, jagged, jangling, jarring, noisy, not smooth, off-key, out-of-key, out-of-tune, rasping, raucous, rugged, rusty, screeching, sour, stridulous, tuneless, uneven, unlevel, unmelodious, unmusical, unrelenting