What is another word for "harsh"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "harsh": abrupt, absence, absonant, acrid, acridity, affectation, affected, and, aphonia, aphonous, aphony, artificial, assafoetida, astringency, astringent, awkward, bad, barbarism, barbarous, bated, bite, biting, bitter, break, breath, breathless, broken, cacophonous, cacophony, caterwauling, childish, cleavers, concert, cracked, crude, cut, deaf, discord, discordance, discordant.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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