Reverse Dictionary: HARSH

ADJECTIVES
1000 ► KEEN fierce, savage (chiefly used of animals); cruel; harsh (to a person) → obs.
1225 ► NESH not harsh or violent → obs.
1300 ► SAVAGE rude, harsh, ungentle → obs.
1374 ► ASPRE harsh to the feelings; bitter, cruel, severe → obs.
1564 ► ABSONANT harsh, inharmonious; fig. discordant or abhorrent to reason, nature, etc; unreasonable,  unnatural
1583 ► HARSHY of harsh quality or character → obs.
1594 ► HASK harsh in sound, tone, or manner → Sc.
1637 ► STREPEROUS noisy, harsh-sounding, loud, boisterous → obs.
1657 ► ACERB sour, with an addition of bitterness or astringency, as unripe fruit; fig. sharp and harsh
1684 ► EFFERATE fierce, harsh, morose → obs.
1708 ► DRACONIC extremely harsh and cruel; rigorous, severe
1727 ► TETRICOUS sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose → obs.
1731 ► AUSTERULOUS somewhat harsh → obs.
1768 ► SAIR of persons: harsh in discipline, treatment, or judgement; stern, severely censorious; niggardly, driving hard bargains → Sc.
1773 ► UNCANNY harsh, unkind, rude; severe, esp. used of a blow or fall → Sc.. & Eng. dial.
1800 ► JANGLY harsh-sounding, inharmonious, discordant
1818 ► HASH harsh; sharp-tempered → Amer. dial.
1831 ► RAUCID hoarse, raucous, harsh-sounding
1833 ► CACOPHONIOUS harsh-sounding, having a disagreeable sound
1848 ► HASKY harsh, rough, coarse, unyielding → Eng. dial.
1862 ► HARD AS NAILS stern and unyielding; harsh; pitiless
1864 ► MAROONJUS → MORUNGEOUS harsh, stern; outrageous; obstreperous, → Sc.
1865 ► ACERBIC of a sour, harsh, or severe character; bitter and sharp, esp. in speech, manner, or temper
1866 ► ASPERT harsh, cruel → Sc. (Bk.)
1868 ► BRASH hard, harsh, rough → US
1876 ► DRACONIAN extremely harsh and cruel, rigorous, severe
1878 ► HASKY harsh, bitter → Eng. dial.
1880 ► TARF coarse, harsh, acrid; rough in manner → Sc.
1881 ► HASK bitter, sour, tart, harsh to the taste → Eng. dial.
1887 ► TARF harsh, bad-tempered, rough-spoken → Sc.
1889 ► HARM harsh; unkind → Amer. dial.
1893 ► TART harsh, severe → Eng. dial.
1895 ► YARKING grating, harsh → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BARSK harsh, husky → Sc. (Bk.)
1898 ► TARGING harsh, censorious, domineering → Sc.
1902 ► HASKY ill-natured, harsh, severe → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGGLISH → RAGLISH severe, harsh → Sc. (Bk.)
1915 ► SOLID harsh, severe; unreasonable; unfair → Aust. sl.

ADVERBS
1377 ► EAGERLY sharply, pungently, keenly; violently, harshly, severely → obs.
1785 ► HARD AND SHARP cruelly, harshly → Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
1400 ► HARDLAIK hardship, harshness, severity → obs.
1400 ► RADDOUR severity, harshness, harsh treatment → Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
1410 ► FELLNESS fierceness, harshness, savagery; cruelty; malignity; also, sternness, severity → obs.
1572 ► ACERBITY of men, their words and actions: sharpness mingled with bitterness, keen harshness
E17.. ► ACERBITY a bitter experience; a harsh or sharp comment, etc.
1688 ► UNBENEVOLENCE unkindness; harshness
1731 ► ACERBITUDE sourness, harshness in taste, bitterness → obs.
1839 ► RASPER a person or thing of sharp, harsh, or unpleasant character → sl.
1971 ► THE ROUGH END OF THE PINEAPPLE harsh, unfair or inequitable treatment; a raw deal → Aust. colloq.

NOUNS, PERSON
1839 ► RASPER a person or thing of sharp, harsh, or unpleasant character → sl.
1898 ► CALF’S-TONGUE a person who is mild or harsh-spoken according to circumstance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► COW’S-TONGUE a person who is mild or harsh-spoken according to circumstance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1823 ► MORE KICKS THAN HALFPENCE more harshness than kindness

VERBS
1583 ► HARSH to give a harsh sound; to creak → obs.
1658 ► EFFERATE to render fierce or harsh → obs.
1824 ► HARSHEN to render harsh
1832 ► OOL to treat harshly, to ill-use, to bully; to wreck the health or spirits of → Sc.
1920 ► DEAL to cause trouble for, to treat harshly → African-American sl.
1947 ► BITTER-MOUTH to speak harshly → US sl.
1972 ► EAT RAZOR BLADES to speak harshly and offensively → Barbados sl.