Harsh

//hɑɹʃ// adj, name, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
  2. 2
    Severe or cruel.

    "harsh decision"

Adjective
  1. 1
    sharply disagreeable; rigorous wordnet
  2. 2
    severe wordnet
  3. 3
    unkind or cruel or uncivil wordnet
  4. 4
    unpleasantly stern wordnet
  5. 5
    unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses wordnet
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  1. 6
    of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To negatively criticize. ambitransitive, slang

    "Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!"

  2. 2
    To put a damper on (a mood). ambitransitive, slang

    "Dude, you're harshing my buzz."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.

Etymology 2

From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.

Etymology 3

From the German surname, Americanized from Harsch, from the adjective harsch.

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