Harsh

Definition: Harsh

Harsh

Adjective

1. Unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous".

2. Disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway".

3. Extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant".

4. Severe; "a harsh penalty".

5. (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters".

6. Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "harsh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Harsh \Harsh\ (h[aum]rsh), adjective. [Comparative Harsher (-[~e]r); superlative Harshest.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: Harsh

Aphony

Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.

Discourtesy

Repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Malevolence

Harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious; invidious; uncandid; churlish; (discourteous); surly, sullen; a.

Pain

Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.

Physical Energy

Rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy; (pungent).

Pitilessness

Adjective: pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful, inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate, uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh; unrelenting.

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Crosswords: Harsh

There is a harsh truth to face (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.)

At the risk of editorializing, these women are guilty, and must be dealt with in a harsh and brutal fashion (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Oh, that was harsh. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Wow, harsh. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Harsh words spoken, (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal)

A harsh light seems to damn you (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

The Harsh Father (1911)

Harsh Realm (1999)

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Books

• Adhesives, Sealants, and Coatings for Space and Harsh Environments (Polymer Science and Technology, Vol 37) (reference)

• Angels in a Harsh World (reference)

• Finding Hope When Doctors Say There Is None: Surviving Cancer in the Harsh World of HMO Medicine (reference)

• Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women's Imprisonment (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime and Law) (reference)

• Namibia: Africa's Harsh Paradise (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Harsh Game for the People (reference)

• The Harsh Light of Day (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A windbreak protects this farmstead from harsh winter winds and provides habitat for wildlife. Credit: Erwin C. Cole.

Pheasants and other wildlife species need both food and cover in harsh Iowa winters. It is provided by landowners with both annual and perennial plantings. Credit: Roger Hill.

Conservation planning along Bear Creek in central Iowa includes providing for the needs of wildlife, especially during harsh winters in the state. Credit: Lynn Betts.

It's still a bit harsh around the mouth. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It was too quick for a quack, and yet too harsh to be anything else

At a distance, through the trees, a harsh grating sound was heard

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style

His voice became harsh.

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Business

During most of the 1980’s, Argentina suffered harsh economic and hyperinflationary conditions. (references)

Government regulations at first glance sometimes appear too harsh and have a reverse effect on the general picture. (references)

Norway, with its harsh winter climate, rough terrain, and tradition of outdoor activities is well suited for SUV’s and 4WD vehicles. (references)

Children

Zimbabwe

Persons with disabilities face particularly harsh customary discrimination. (references)

Grenada

The law provides for harsh penalties against those convicted of child abuse and disallows the victim's alleged "consent" as a defense in cases of incest. (references)

Iran

However, the Cable News Network reported in 1996 on the harsh conditions in an institution for children with mental retardation who had been abandoned by their parents. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

The treatment of asylum seekers in the transit zone reportedly was harsh. (references)

Cameroon

Some illegal immigrants have been subjected to harsh treatment and imprisonment. (references)

Laos

The more severe sentences in Oudomxay were based on harsh Penal Code provisions for acts against the State. (references)

Economic History

Central African Republic

Journalists have occasionally been threatened, and prison conditions remain harsh. (references)

Japan

Under these circumstances, competition with Korean and EU construction firms will become harsh. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Recent decisions, however, have demonstrated a retreat from harsh judgments against the employer. (references)

Human Rights

Central African Republic

Prison conditions are extremely harsh. (references)

Pakistan

Legal experts criticized the judgment as overly harsh. (references)

Nigeria

Prison and detention conditions remained harsh and life threatening. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

The bidoon have been the objects of harsh government policy since the mid-1980's. (references)

Croatia

A series of harsh anonymous telephone calls to the Center ceased after police began an investigation. (references)

Dominican Republic

Perhaps 500,000 Haitian immigrants--or 7 percent of the country's population--live in shantytowns or sugar cane work camps, in harsh conditions with limited or no electricity, running water, or schooling. (references)

Political Economy

Greece

Overcrowding and harsh conditions continued in some prisons. (references)

Panama

Overall prison conditions remained harsh, with occasional outbreaks of internal prison violence. (references)

Nigeria

Shari'a courts sentenced persons to harsh punishments including amputations and death by stoning. (references)

Political Rights

Russia

An election for a Duma deputy from the Chechen Republic subsequently was held in August 2000; retired Interior Ministry General Aslambek Aslakhanov, a harsh critic of the conduct of federal forces in Chechnya, was elected. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Discrimination against women in areas under Taliban control was particularly harsh. (references)

Greece

Conviction rates on rape charges are low for those accused for the first time, but sentences are harsh for repeat offenders. (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

There reportedly are as many as hundreds of underage camel jockeys working in the country who are subjected to harsh conditions. (references)

Ukraine

Societal attitudes toward trafficking victims often are harsh, which deters women from pursuing legal action against traffickers. (references)

Iraq

However, children reportedly are encouraged increasingly to work in order to help support their families because of the country's harsh economic conditions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "harsh": be harsh ♦ become harsh ♦ harsh criticism ♦ harsh environment ♦ harsh language ♦ harsh lesson ♦ harsh penalty ♦ harsh sound ♦ harsh winter ♦ harsh words. Additional references.

Beginning with "harsh": harsh-boned, harsh-leaved, harsh-sounding, harsh-voiced.

Ending with "harsh": granite-harsh, over-harsh.

Albanian

vulgare (loud), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i sertë (dour, hard, hard boiled, hard-fisted, iron-bound, ornery, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, steely, stern, stiff, wayward), i pashpirt (callous, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, heavy-handed, insensate, soulless), i papëlqyeshëm (bitter, disagreeable, distasteful, indecent, invidious, nasty, undesirable), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏قاسي (austere, drastic, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, rough, rugged, severe, sharp, slashing, stern, stony, strait, strict, stringent, tough, unyielding), ‏قاس صلب (callous, concrete, firm, hard, inflexible, relentless, rigid, rough, ruthless, severe, solid, stiff, strict, tough), ‏قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unfeeling, unkind, unyielding), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild), ‏أجش (coarse, coarsen, cracked, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, raucous, rough, rusty, throaty), ‏شظف (rough). (various references)

Basque

gogor. (various references)

Bulgarian 

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), тръпчив (acerb, acerbic), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), гол (bald, bare, callow, goal, naked, nude, raw, unfledged, ungloved), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), безчувствен (indurate, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stockish, stolid, torpid, unfeeling), пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, wild, yeasty), пронизващ (cutting, keen, raw, searching, strident, thrilling), дрезгав (cracked, grating, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, ragged, raspy, raucous, rough, rusty, throaty), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild). (various references)

Chinese 

苛刻 . (various references)

Czech

hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), tvrdý (big, brazen, callous, crackdown, cruel, deep, hard, heavy, relentless, rigorous, sound, steely, stiff, stone-dead, stony, tough, unkind), trpký (bitter, dry, painful, sour, tart, unpalatable), přísný (austere, exacting, firm, hard, heavy, nice, rigid, rigorous, severe, sharp, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, tough, uncharitable), příkrý (abrupt, brusque, prone, sheer, stark, steep, violent), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, dispiteous, extreme, fierce, gory, grim, hard, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, savage, severe, torsion, unkind, unrelenting, vicious, wolfish), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind). (various references)

Danish

uvenlig (brutal, gruff, nasty, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), tør (dry), stram, snerpende (aspero, rough), skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Dutch

wrang (acerbic, acid, acrid, astringent, constringent, sour, tart), scherp (abrasive, accurate, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, exactly, lurid, nutty, precise, sharp, sour, tart), ruw (abusive, brute, coarse, crude, rough), bruut (brute, head of cattle), beestachtig (beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish). (various references)

Esperanto

maldelikata (coarse, crude), malafabla (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, surly, unkind, unpleasant), bruta (brute), acerba (acerbic, acid, sour, tart). (various references)

Faeroese

óblíður (bleak, brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Farsi 

ناملایم , ناگوار (Burdensome, Horrible, Unpleasant, Unsavory), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), درشت (Abrupt, Brutish, Crass, Gross, Gruff, Jumbo, Large, Lump, Rough, Sturdy). (various references)

Finnish

tyly (brusque, gruff, unkind), töykeä (brusque, discourteous, gruff, unobliging), raaka (brutal, coarse, crude, green, not ripe, raw, rough, rude, unrefined, unripe, unwrought, yard), räikeä (flagrant, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross), kova (hard, loud, severe, stern, strict, unfeeling), kitkerä (acrid, bitter), karvas (bitter), karski (brisk, gruff, Karski, rough, stern), karmea (bitter, grisly, gruesome), karkea (coarse, rough, rude), karhea (rough), jumoava (astringent), epäsuopea (ill-dispodes, severe, unkind). (various references)

French

vulgaire, rude (hard). (various references)

Frisian

bekjelûkerich (acerbic, acid, acrid, astringent, constringent, tart). (various references)

German

herb (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harshly, lurid, rude, severe, sharp, sour, tangy, tart, tartly), rauh (abrasive, bleak, bleakly, coarse, crude, gnarled, grating, gravelly, gruff, harshly, hoarse, husky, inclement, inclemently, raucous, raucously, raw, rough, roughly, rugged, scraggly, severe, sore, stark, throatily, throaty, tough, unrefined, unwrought, wild), barsch (abrupt, abusive, bass, blunt, brusque, coarse, crude, crustily, crusty, curt, impolite, perch, peremptory, rude, short, shortly, unceremonious), adstringierend (acerbic, acid, astringent, constringent, tart). (various references)

Greek 

σκληρός (cruel, grim, gruelling, hard, rough, tough), στρυφνόσ (cantankerous, hard), στυφή (astringent), άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, lupin, lupine, sassy, savage, truculent, violent, wild), άγριος (ferocious, fierce, savage, truculent, wild), αψύς, τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rude, rugged, scabrous, scraggly, screechy, seamy, throaty, tough), τραχύς (abrasive, gruff, husky, rough), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant), δριμύς (bitter, severe). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחמיר (aggravating, meticulous, pedant, rigorous, severe, stringent), קשוח (callous, cruel, impenitent, inexorable, stern, stony, tough), קש�" (adamant, crusty, difficult, formidable, hard, heavy, severe, stern, stiff, Strait, tough), צורמ� י (grating, raucous, strident), צורם (dissonant, jarring, rasping). (various references)

Hungarian

szigorú (austere, censorious, dour, exacting, hard and fast, inclement, meagre, poser, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, strait, strict, stringent), rikácsoló (vociferous), nyers (assertive, blunt, brusque, burly, coarse, concrete, crude, ecru, feral, gruff, pure, ramage, raw, rough cast, rough spoken, rude, rugged, surly, undressed), kíméletlen (grim, hell-bent, machiavellian, regardless, to play hardball, uncharitable, unmindful), durva (barbaric, broad, brusque, brutal, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, gross, hirsute, impious, insensible, offensive, ragged, ramage, Randy, robustic, rough, rude, scraggly, scraggy, scurrilous, stogy, uncouth), érdes (choppy, coarse, cragged, hirsute, hoarse, muddy, ragged, raspy, rough, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scrapy, scratchy). (various references)

Icelandic

beiskur (acerbic, acid, acrid, sour, tart), óvingjarnlegur (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), óvænn (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Indonesian

kejam (callous, demoniac, demonic, diabolical, ferocious, grim, hard hearted, inhuman, ruthless). (various references)

Italian

rude (brutal, coarse, gruff, rough, rude, rugged, sour, sullen, surly, tough, unkind, unpleasant), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, cavalier, downright, gruff, offhand, offhanded, outspoken, rough, sharp, short, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), aspro (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, foxy, gruff, hoarse, lurid, rough, rugged, scathing, sharp, smart, sour, stark, tart, uncharitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過酷 (cruelty, rigour, severity), 辛い 2 (adverse, hot spicy, salty, tough on someone), 辛い (adverse, heart-breaking, hot, painful, salty, tough), 酷 (rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, unfair), 苛酷 (cruelty, rigour, severity), �'�'しい (desolate, gruff, rough, rude, violent, wild), �'々しい (desolate, gruff, rough, rude, violent, wild), 手酷い (severe), 手厳しい (severe), 刺々しい (sharp, snappy, stinging, thorny), 刺刺しい (sharp, snappy, stinging, thorny). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"く (cruelty, rigour, severity), からい (adverse, cyclonic thunder-storm, hot, salty, tough), �"く (ancient expression, carving, cutting, engraving, old poem, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, time, unfair, victory, volume measure), あらあらしい (desolate, gruff, rough, rude, violent, wild), と�'と�'しい (sharp, snappy, stinging, thorny), てきびしい (severe), てひどい (severe). (various references)

Korean 

가혹한 (severe). (various references)

Manx

trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), ruggagh (rough, rugged), raghtanagh (headstrong, indigent, obstinate, rough, stubborn), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), garg (acrid, austere, bitter, brusque, pungent, tuneless). (various references)

Norwegian

hard (callous, hard), uvennlig (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), streng (gut), besk, barsk (bluff, fierce, gruff). (various references)

Occitan

dur, a. (various references)

Pig Latin

arshhay.(various references)

Polish

nieuprzejmy (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Portuguese

adstringente (acerbic, astringent, constringent, sour, styptic, tart), acre (acerbic, acre, acrid, bitter, mordacious, poignant, pungent, sharp, sour, tart, vinegary), áspero (abrupt, acerb, bluff, coarse, cornered, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, scrawny, seamy, severe). (various references)

Romanian

nemilos (cruel, fell, hard, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unkind), împietrit (callous, dumbfounded, rocky, stuporous), abrupt (abrupt, abruptly, arduous, bluffy, bold, craggy, desultory, disjointed, perpendicular, precipitate, precipitous, rapid, sharp, steep), apãsãtor (burdensome, hard, heavy, importunate, incumbent, onerous, oppressive, overwhelmingly, pressing, severe, tormenting, torturing, trying, unbearable), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), biciuitor (biting, lashing, severe), câinesc (beastly, canine, currish, doggish, doggy, dog's), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), dur (callous, difficult, dour, firm, hard, rigid, rough, roughly, stern, strict, stubborn, troublesome), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent), neîndurãtor (grim, inclement, irremovable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, relentlessly, ruthless, unfeeling), vârtos (firm, hard, sinewy, stout, strong, strongly), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), rãstit (uncivil), ridicat (advanced, erect, high, long, raised, raising, severe, standing, stiff, upright), rigid (angular, buckram, cast iron, hard and fast, hard set, incompressible, inflexible, rigid, rigidly, stark, steady, stern, stiff, stiffly, strait laced, wooden), rugos, sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, grim, hard, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), spart (breaking, broken, hoarse), strident (clangorous, grating, high, loud, shrill, strident, stridently), jignitor (abusive, cutting, hurtful, insulting, invidious, obloquious, offensive, offensively, reproachful, stinging). (various references)

Russian 

строгий (astringent, austere, censorious, chaste, dour, hard, rigorous, severe, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable), резкий (abrupt, acrid, acute, bitter, bluffy, brusque, crusty, curt, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, screechy, sharp, short, shrewd, strident, tart), грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), жесткий (bristly, chewy, get-tough, hard, hard and fast, ironclad, leathery, rigid, stiff, tough), аляповатый (awkward, coarse, crude, fussy). (various references)

Scottish

r� san, garbh (coarse, hoarse, rough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hrapav (coarse, cracked, husky, ragged, rasping, raucous, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggy), promukao (hoarse, raucous), okrutan (cruel, dispiteous, flagitious, flinty, hardhearted, truculent), neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), grub (boorish, brusque, bumptious, coarse, crude, indelicate, lowbrow, rough, rough and ready, rough and tumble). (various references)

Spanish

áspero (abrupt, acid, brusque, coarse, crotchety, disagreeable, grating, hackly, hard, jagged, rasping, rough, rugged, scraggy, severe, sharp, sour, strict, tart, unpolished), brusko (brutal, gruff, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant), bronco (abrupt, brazen, brittle, brutal, crude, gruff, raw, rough, ruffianly, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant, unworked, unwrought). (various references)

Swedish

sträv (abrasive, bristly, coarse, gruff, rough, scabrous), kärv (acerbic, astringent, bitter, harch, strident), hård (adamant, austere, backbreaking, concrete, grim, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, inclement, intemperate, ironbound, keen, obdurate, robust, severe, stern, tenacious, tight, tough, unkind), barsk (gruff, rugged, stern). (various references)

Turkish

haşin (austere, crusty, forbidding, inclement, rough, rude, severe, stern, truculent), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), kulakları tırmalayan (rugged), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), kırıcı (breaker, cutting, disobliging, galling, injurious, invidious, offending, scathing, scorching, shocking, stinging, unkind), göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, flaring, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous, incandescent, resplendent), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukrainian

різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), жорсткий (callous, flinty, hard, horny, leathery, procrustean, rigid, wiry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thô bạo (discourteous, rough, roughly), thô bỉ (churlish, grossly, larrikin, scurrilous, uncivil), thô (crude, incondite), t� n nhẫn (cruelly, dispiteous, grim, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unfeeling), ráp (rough, roughly, unsmooth), khắc nghiệt (devil-like, draconian, draconic, hard, hard-handed, hardly, uncharitable), cay nghiệt; nhẫn tâm, cục cằn gay gắt; khe khắt, ác nghiệt (cruel, cruelly, sore). (various references)

Welsh

gerwin (austere, rough, severe), dreng (morose, sullen, surly), craslyd (grating), cras (arid, dry, parched), caled (arduous, austere, dry, hard, severe), brwnt (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean), afrywiog (cross-grained, improper, perverse, rising), aflafar (unmelodious). (various references)

austeros. (various references)

acerbam, acerbi, acerbo, acerbus, asper, atrox, austerus, densae, densarum, densum, dora, doram, dura, durae, duram, dure, dureque, duri, duriora, duriorem, duris, durissimae, durissimam, durissimo, durissimos, durissimum, durius, duro, duros, durum, durus, iniuria, iniuriae, iniuriam, iniurias, iniuriis, inmitis, saeva, saevi, saevis, saevissimis, saevum, saevus, severus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "harsh": harshen, harshened, harshening, harshens, harsher, harshest, harshly, harshness, harshnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Harsh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arsh, Charsh, Ghairbh, Gharah, haars, Hanshi, harash, harch, hareh, Harkhuf, Harrs, harsch, harshe, harsk, harst, harth, haruh, harz, hasch, hasha, hasho, Hijrah, Hirsi, hurgh, hursh, Jarosch, larsh, Naresh, rahsh, warsh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hahs, hash, rash, shah.

-2 letters: ars, ash, hah, has, rah, ras, sha, shh.

-3 letters: ah, ar, as, ha, sh.

+1 letter: horahs, rehash, thrash.

+2 letters: harshen, harsher, harshly, hearths, hoorahs, hurrahs, rhachis, rhaphes, shophar.

+3 letters: charkhas, hachures, hardhats, hardship, harshens, harshest, harumphs, hatchers, heathers, kashruth, khirkahs, parashah, pharaohs, rehashed, rehashes, shadrach, sheather, shophars, thrashed, thrasher, thrashes.

+4 letters: arhatship, brouhahas, ethnarchs, haftarahs, haftorahs, hairbrush, haphtaras, hardhacks, hardheads, hardships, harrumphs, harshened, harshness, hartshorn, hawthorns, heptarchs, hierarchs, highroads, hipparchs, horsehair, huaraches, huarachos, hydranths, kashruths, maharishi, parashahs, parashoth, pushchair, rehashing, rhachides, rhachises, shadrachs, sheathers, shorthair, shorthand, thatchers, thrashers, thrashing.