Harsh - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/04/2026

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Harsh.

8 letter answer(s) to harsh

ABRASIVE
  1. a substance that abrades or wears down
  2. causing abrasion
  3. Rough
  4. sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"

10 letter answer(s) to harsh

ASTRINGENT
  1. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
  2. Severe
  3. sour or bitter in taste
  4. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"

7 letter answer(s) to harsh

AUSTERE
  1. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
  2. 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"
  3. severely simple;
  4. Uadorned
  5. Without ornamentation
RAUCOUS
  1. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"
  2. rowdy
  3. unpleasantly loud and harsh

6 letter answer(s) to harsh

BRUTAL
  1. (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"
  2. disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
  3. harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter"
  4. 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
  1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
  2. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
  3. severely simple;
  4. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;
  5. very bad in degree or extent;
  6. very strong or vigorous;

4 letter answer(s) to harsh

DOUR
  1. 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
  2. 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"
  3. 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"
  4. Sullen

9 letter answer(s) to harsh

DRACONIAN
  1. Excessively harsh and severe
  2. of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws; "Draconian measures"
  3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Draco or his code of laws. (often lowercase) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel: Draconian forms of punishment.
  4. severe

5 letter answer(s) to harsh

STARK
  1. complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
  2. completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
  3. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
  4. 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"
  5. severely simple;
  6. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
STERN
  1. Daniel Stern was the nom de plume of Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (née de Flavigny; 31 December 1805 – 5 March 1876).
  2. 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"
  3. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
  4. severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
  5. severely simple;
  6. 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?"
  7. the rear part of a ship
  8. United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

Frequently asked questions about ‘Harsh’

What's the best solution for Harsh?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue Harsh is DOUR. Other possible answers include ABRASIVE, ASTRINGENT, AUSTERE, BRUTAL, DRACONIAN, RAUCOUS, SEVERE, STARK, STERN.

How many solutions are there for Harsh?

We have found 10 possible answers for the crossword clue Harsh.

Which crosswords feature clues like Harsh?

Clues like Harsh often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph Toughie, Sunday Mirror, The Independent, Daily Mirror, among others.

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