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SEVERITY |
Harshness |
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TRUCULENCE |
Harshness |
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AUSTERITY |
Harshness |
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DURITY |
Harshness; cruelty. |
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ACERBITUDE |
Sourness and harshness. |
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STRIDENT |
Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. |
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SOFT |
Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. |
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SMOOTH |
To free from harshness; to make flowing. |
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AUSTERENESS |
Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste;
acerbity. |
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HUSKINESS |
Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness
of voice. |
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ACERBITY |
Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of
temper, of language, of pain. |
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ASPERITY |
Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity;
crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. |
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EASY |
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality;
unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. |
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LIQUID |
Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and
r are liquid letters. |
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CRABBED |
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
applied to things; as, a crabbed taste. |
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WOLF |
In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration
in certain notes of the scale. |
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RAUCITY |
Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the
raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice. |
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DRACO |
A word meaning “of great severity” was derived from the name of which Athenian lawmaker who established laws characterised by their harshness? |
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MOLLIFY |
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness,
harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. |
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HOARSENESS |
Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus
collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords. |
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INCLEMENCY |
Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to
the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold,
wind, rain, or snow. |
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FLOW |
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to
be uttered easily. |