Definitions for harsh

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harsh harsh

Spelling: [hahrsh]

IPA: /hɑrʃ/

Harsh is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in harsh (ahhrs).

Definitions for harsh

adjective

1. ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect:
2. grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere:
3. physically uncomfortable; desolate; stark:
4. unpleasant to the ear; grating; strident:
5. unpleasantly rough, ragged, or coarse to the touch:
6. jarring to the eye or to the esthetic sense; unrefined; crude; raw:
7. unpleasant to the taste or sense of smell; bitter; acrid:

Origin of harsh

1250-1300; Middle English harsk; cognate with German harsch, Danish harsk rancid

Examples for harsh

Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.

Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.

Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

The Castle of Villefranche was harsh and stern as its master.

As for his harsh—some might even say paranoid—opposition to European integration, “most of us would support him.”

The Inspector's harsh voice brought out the words boastfully.

Yes, he has been so harsh to you; but it is his nature, he is so to every one, and you are not the only one whom he has bullied.

But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved.

He perceived that he had become the victim of a harsh and ruthless dealing.

His dreams were all of escape from this grinding, harsh farm.