[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

harsh \harsh\ haumrsh, a. compar. harsher
   haumrsh"~er; superl. harshest. oe. harsk; akin to
   g. harsch, dan. harsk rancid, sw. haumrsk; from the same
   source as e. hard. see hard, a.
   1. rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.:
      a disagreeable to the touch. "harsh sand." --boyle.
      b disagreeable to the taste. "berries harsh and crude."
          --milton.
      c disagreeable to the ear. "harsh din." --milton.
          1913 webster

   2. unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere;
      crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
      1913 webster

            clarence is so harsh, so blunt.       --shak.
      1913 webster

            though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charmed.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. painting, drawing, etc. having violent contrasts of
      color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
      1913 webster
see also:
harsher harshest hard 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

harsh
     adj 1: unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand
            and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
            syn: rough
     2: disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay";
        "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up
        your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
     3: extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and
        unlovable old tyrant"
     4: severe; "a harsh penalty"
     5: used of circumstances especially weather that cause
        suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be
        cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous
        climate"; "unkind winters" syn: brutal, cruel, rigorous,
         unkind
     6: sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court
        delays"; "an abrasive character" syn: abrasive
see also:
rough brutal cruel rigorous unkind abrasive 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

333 moby thesaurus words for "harsh":
   doric, draconian, spartan, spartanic, abrupt, absonant, abusive,
   acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute,
   afflictive, aggressive, agonizing, ajar, amaroidal, asperous,
   astringent, atonal, atrocious, austere, authoritarian, barbaric,
   barbarous, bearish, beastly, bilious, biting, bitter,
   bitter as gall, blaring, bleak, bluff, blunt, blurred, bowelless,
   brash, brassy, brazen, breathy, bristly, brusque, brutal, brutish,
   burdensome, burning, cacophonous, caustic, cavalier, choked,
   choking, choleric, churlish, clashing, clumsy, coarse, colliding,
   comfortless, conflicting, confused, corrugated, cracked, cragged,
   craggy, cramping, crinkled, croaking, croaky, cross, crude, cruel,
   crumpled, crusty, curt, cutting, demanding, diaphonic,
   disagreeable, discomforting, disconsonant, discordant,
   discourteous, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, distressing,
   dog-eat-dog, doggerel, double-edged, dour, drawling, drawly, dry,
   dysphemistic, dysphonic, ear-piercing, edged, escharotic, exacting,
   excruciating, exhausting, exigent, fierce, flat, flinty, gnawing,
   graceless, granular, grating, grave, gravelly, grim, grinding,
   griping, gross, grouchy, gruff, guttural, hairy, hard, harrowing,
   harsh-sounding, hawking, heartless, heavy, hoarse, hurtful,
   hurting, husky, immelodious, impolite, improper, impure,
   in bad taste, inarticulate, incisive, inclement, inconcinnate,
   inconcinnous, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, indistinct,
   inelegant, inexorable, infelicitous, inharmonic, inharmonious,
   inhuman, intemperate, irascible, ironbound, irritating, jagged,
   jaggy, jangling, jangly, jarring, jostling, keen, lisping, loose,
   low, merciless, metallic, meticulous, mispronounced, mordacious,
   mordant, musicless, muzzy, nasal, nasty, nonmelodious,
   nose-tickling, off, off-color, off-key, off-tone, onerous,
   oppressive, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, outlandish,
   overburdensome, painful, paroxysmal, peevish, penetrating,
   petulant, piercing, piquant, pitiless, poignant, pungent,
   punishing, punitive, quavering, racking, ragged, rasping, raucid,
   raucous, relentless, remorseless, rigorous, rockbound, rocky,
   rough, roupy, rude, rugged, rugose, rugous, rusty, ruthless,
   sarcastic, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scabrous, scathing, scragged,
   scraggly, scraggy, scraping, scratchy, serrate, serrated, severe,
   shaggy, shaking, shaky, sharp, shooting, short, short-tempered,
   shrill, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, snippy, snuffling, sour,
   spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, splenetic, squawking, squawky,
   squeaky, stabbing, stark, stern, stertorous, stifled, stinging,
   stony, strangled, strict, strident, stridulous, stringent, stubbly,
   sullen, surly, tangy, tart, tasteless, thick, throaty, tinny,
   tormenting, torturous, tough, tremulous, trenchant, truculent,
   tuneless, twangy, tyrannical, tyrannous, uncivil, uncompassionate,
   uncompassioned, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious,
   uneven, unfeeling, unfelicitous, unforgiving, unfriendly, ungentle,
   ungraceful, unharmonious, unkind, unlevel, unmelodious, unmerciful,
   unmusical, unpitiful, unpitying, unpleasant, unpolished, unrefined,
   unremorseful, unseemly, unsmooth, unsparing, unsympathetic,
   unsympathizing, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unyielding,
   vehement, velar, violent, virulent, vitriolic, vulgar, warring,
   waspish, wearing, wearying, weighty, without mercy, wrinkled

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