Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Harsh.
8 letter answer(s) to harsh
ABRASIVE
a substance that abrades or wears down
causing abrasion
Rough
sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"
10 letter answer(s) to harsh
ASTRINGENT
a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
Severe
sour or bitter in taste
tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"
7 letter answer(s) to harsh
AUSTERE
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
severely simple;
Uadorned
Without ornamentation
RAUCOUS
disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"
rowdy
unpleasantly loud and harsh
6 letter answer(s) to harsh
BRUTAL
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter"
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
SEVERE
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
severely simple;
unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;
very bad in degree or extent;
very strong or vigorous;
4 letter answer(s) to harsh
DOUR
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
Sullen
9 letter answer(s) to harsh
DRACONIAN
Excessively harsh and severe
of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws; "Draconian measures"
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Draco or his code of laws.
(often lowercase) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel: Draconian forms of punishment.
severe
5 letter answer(s) to harsh
STARK
complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
severely simple;
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
STERN
Daniel Stern was the nom de plume of Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (née de Flavigny; 31 December 1805 – 5 March 1876).
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
severely simple;
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
the rear part of a ship
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
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