Harsh - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 26/06/2023

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)

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Harsh'

A British party is caught after doing a U-turn, sharp
A superior holy person before becoming self-abnegating
A supporter's not recorded emitting line that's hurtful
Acute
Address otherwise neat Spartan
Animal research facility about to introduce a tedious course
Ascetic scoffed about American soldiers
Austere
Australia tried enthusiastically removing England's openers – harsh!
Aver bias, terribly harsh
Back
Back at sea - that's harsh
Back at sea?
Back being serious
Back of a boat
Back on the briny
Back on the high seas
Back showing no leniency
Bare-bones
Bark back
Basic trail switches left to right
Beastly kind of wine the French knocked over
Before led by person from Vienna, say, not half serious
Biting a peanut on and off to take in fibre
Bleak Georgian writer about to put out start of novel
Blunt
Boat's back
British novelist omitting note about grave
Brooking no dissent
Cheerless
Coarse sailor is capsized in storm
Cold island imports temperature
Coming out of their shells, Brad and Lucy not just loud
Contractor starting to work over nurse
Crude, annoyingly stubborn person sounded harsh and loud
Demanding
Desolate
Devil’s victim losing force before grave
Diabolical pact-maker losing head before exercising severe self-discipline
Divorce wife ultimately finds difficult
Draconian
Dreadful crimes to chill event
Exacting
Exacting short-term drills start off aerobic exercise
Experimental variables left out, causing friction
Extremely cruel mafia leader concealing overturned vehicle in a helter-skelter
Extremely rare to have name removed from novelist's grave
Far from perky
Far from soft
Finger-wagging
Firm
Forbidding
Formal - unsmiling
Frank's very dry with a learner
Gloomy
Gloomy passion out of Arabia
Glum
Gold head of Nabokov removed from novelist's grave
Gold record-player with no ordinary remote
Grave
Grim
Grim - a US tree
Grim - USA tree
Grim at all times in southeast
Grim person achieving things, we hear
Grim prospect for yachtsman trying to catch rival
Grimly serious
GRUMPY
Hard back
Hard to translate verse? Easy at first
Hard-nosed
Hardly luxurious
Hardly upbeat
Harsh - scratchy
Harsh about replacing author's final piece
Harsh in manner
Harsh member of clergy rising in diocese
Harsh Republican, American, acquiring a posh firm
Harshly loud
Headless American general buried in a European grave
Hoarse, harsh
Howard of morning radio
Howard of satellite radio
Ill-humored
Inflexible part of ship?
Inhuman
Inhuman and boring routine in research site set up
Inhuman routine in scientific establishment retracted
Insensitive in manner
Lacking comforts
Last-ditch opening to lose weight? No time
Letters from schoolmaster never enforcing discipline
Like a moonscape
Like many a contrast
Like some laws
Like some thunderstorms
Like some warnings
Lotion applied to the skin to make it less oily
Loud and discordant
Loud and harsh
Loud section of hymn repeated by Spooner
Mobile airbase housing very rough
Moody
Morose
Not at all gentle
On air, can broadcast after Democrat, showing extreme harshness
One American tree shattered grave
One bar's busy and one's rough
Opposite of soft
Plain and simple
Rear
Rear (of a ship)
Rear 16 birds
Rear of a galley
Rear of a ship
Rear small bird
Rigid back
Rigorous - harsh
Ringo's original surname
Rough area fearless one's turned into
Rough Spanish agreement accepted by a Native American fighter
Rowboat's rear
Rowdy - strident
Rudder's locale
Rudder's place
Rudder's spot
Rule out treasure being scattered in grave
Saturnine
Savage
Savage routine in revolutionary laboratory
Savage, unfeeling
Scratchy
Scratchy - harsh
Sea, true, is rough and harsh
Senselessly cruel
Sent rating out for bitter
Severe
Severe in appearance
Severe in manner
Severe looking; naked
Severe, stern, gloomy
Severe, twisted features ignored by female
Severe; rear
Severely simple
Ship's rear
Showing no compassion at any time in Kent?
Simple one providing food without frills entertaining me, informally
Skin tightener
Small aquatic bird in rear of vessel
Small bird is back
Small bird's back
Sober Australian soldiers drinking tea mostly
Sober user ate bananas
Sour tasting
Spartan
Stern
Stern composed features female's lacking
Stern or gloomy
Strict
Strict clergyman is elevated in diocese
Strict member of the clergy turned up in diocese
Strict Republican covered by gun
Strict, harsh
Strident
Stringent
Styptic thread kept in a hospital department
Sullen
Time Her Maj should enter a service sober
Time in Channel island is bleak
Torrential
Tough being cute?
Unaccommodating
Unbending
Uncompromising
Under terrible strain, fellow is bitter
Unopened perfume's grim
Unsmiling
Unsparing curbing of habit by party from the right
Verse in translation, initially extremely hard
Very bad
Very harsh
Very severe, stern
Very strict
Violinist Isaac
Visit old city that's somewhat grim
___ raving mad

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