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adjective

Harsh adj. (compar. harsher; superl. harshest)

Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:

(a)

Disagreeable to the touch. "Harsh sand."

(b)

Disagreeable to the taste. "Berries harsh and crude."

(c)

Disagreeable to the ear. "Harsh din."

Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. "Clarence is so harsh, so blunt." "Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed."

(Painting, Drawing, etc.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

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Etymology of 'Harsh'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Harsh" Quotes from Famous Books

... STUDDENHAM. Harsh! [His eyes again move from side to side as if pain and anger had bewildered them. Then looking sideways at FREDA, but in a gentler voice] And when did you tell him about—what's come ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... the general opinion of the time that the revolt of dependant allies might be fairly punished by one that could punish them—(so the Corinthians take care to observe). And it does not appear that the Athenian empire at this period was more harsh than that of other states to their dependants. The Athenian ambassadors (Thucyd., i., 78) not only quote the far more galling oppressions the Ionians and the isles had undergone from the Mede, but hint that the Spartans had been found much harder masters ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... is—it is," cried Shaddy; and collecting all his remaining strength, he uttered a hoarse hail, which was supplemented by a faint harsh cry from Rob, as he fell back senseless in their rough nest of boughs in the ...

— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn

... utterly incompetent to form any judgment on either theological or scientific subjects, but who gladly welcomed anything which would help to justify them to their own consciences in their refusal to submit themselves to a law which, in their ignorance, they deemed to be harsh and intolerable. There has also been another class of sufferers. Many persons who loved the Bible, but whose education, and, consequently, whose powers of judgment in the matter were very limited, have received very great injury from the doubt ...

— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

... watery juice and alternate, 2-ranked, simple, deciduous, obliquely ovate to obliquely heart-shaped, strongly straight-veined, serrate leaves, harsh to the touch, often rough. Flowers insignificant, appearing before the leaves. Fruit a flattened, round-winged samara; ripe in the spring and dropping early from the trees. Bark rough with ...

— Trees of the Northern United States - Their Study, Description and Determination • Austin C. Apgar

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