harsh (adj.)

• abrupt
• abusive
• acerb
• acerbic
• acid
• acidulous
• acrid
• acrimonious
• acute
• afflictive
• aggressive
• agonizing
• ajar
• astringent
• atonal
• atrocious
• austere
• authoritarian
• barbaric
• barbarous
• bearish
• beastly
• bilious
• biting
• bitter
• blaring
• bleak
• bluff
• blunt
• blurred
• bowelless
• brash
• brassy
• brazen
• bristly
• brusque
• brutal
• brutish
• burdensome
• burning
• cacophonous
• caustic
• cavalier
• choked
• choleric
• churlish
• clashing
• clumsy
• coarse
• comfortless
• conflicting
• confused
• corrugated
• cracked
• cragged
• craggy
• crinkled
• croaky
• cross
• crude
• cruel
• crumpled
• crusty
• curt
• cutting
• demanding
• disagreeable
• discordant
• discourteous
• disharmonious
• dissonant
• distressing
• double-edged
• dour
• dry
• dysphemistic
• edged
• exacting
• excruciating
• exhausting
• exigent
• fierce
• flat
• flinty
• graceless
• granular
• grating
• grave
• gravelly
• grim
• gross
• grouchy
• gruff
• guttural
• hairy
• hard
• harrowing
• hawking
• heartless
• heavy
• hoarse
• hurtful
• husky
• impolite
• improper
• impure
• inarticulate
• incisive
• inclement
• incongruous
• incorrect
• indecorous
• indistinct
• inelegant
• inexorable
• infelicitous
• inharmonic
• inharmonious
• inhuman
• intemperate
• irascible
• irritating
• jagged
• jaggy
• jangling
• jangly
• jarring
• keen
• loose
• low
• merciless
• metallic
• meticulous
• mordacious
• mordant
• muzzy
• nasal
• nasty
• off
• off-color
• off-key
• onerous
• oppressive
• outlandish
• painful
• paroxysmal
• peevish
• penetrating
• petulant
• piercing
• piquant
• pitiless
• poignant
• pungent
• punishing
• punitive
• quavering
• racking
• ragged
• rasping
• raucous
• relentless
• remorseless
• rigorous
• rockbound
• rocky
• rough
• roupy
• rude
• rugged
• rugose
• rusty
• ruthless
• sarcastic
• saw-toothed
• scabrous
• scathing
• scraggly
• scraggy
• scratchy
• serrate
• serrated
• severe
• shaggy
• shaking
• shaky
• sharp
• shooting
• short
• short-tempered
• shrill
• snuffling
• sour
• spasmodic
• splenetic
• squawky
• squeaky
• stabbing
• stark
• stern
• stertorous
• stifled
• stinging
• stony
• strangled
• strict
• strident
• stringent
• stubbly
• sullen
• surly
• tangy
• tart
• tasteless
• thick
• throaty
• tinny
• torturous
• tough
• tremulous
• trenchant
• truculent
• tuneless
• tyrannical
• tyrannous
• uncivil
• uncompassionate
• uncouth
• undignified
• uneven
• unfeeling
• unforgiving
• unfriendly
• ungentle
• ungraceful
• unharmonious
• unkind
• unmelodious
• unmerciful
• unmusical
• unpitying
• unpleasant
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unremorseful
• unseemly
• unsmooth
• unsparing
• unsympathetic
• unsympathizing
• untuneful
• unyielding
• vehement
• velar
• violent
• virulent
• vitriolic
• vulgar
• warring
• waspish
• wearing
• wearying
• weighty
• wrinkled