| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort: bitter, brutal, hard, rough, severe. See COMFORT. 2. Having a noticeably sharp pungent taste or smell: acerbic, acrid, bitter, sour. See TASTE. 3. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, grim, hard, severe, stark. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 4. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing: dry, grating, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, rough, scratchy, squawky, strident. See SOUNDS. 5. Having a surface that is not smooth: coarse, cragged, craggy, ironbound, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged, scabrous, uneven. See SMOOTH. 6. Rigorous and unsparing in treating others: demanding, exacting, hard, rigid, severe, stern, strict, tough, unyielding. See EASY.
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