Usually means: Rough and low in tone.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. gruffness: Merriam-Webster
  2. gruffness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gruffness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gruffness: Vocabulary.com
  5. gruffness: Wordnik
  6. gruffness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gruffness: Wiktionary
  8. Gruffness, gruffness: Dictionary.com
  9. gruffness: Rhymezone
  10. gruffness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. gruffness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. gruffness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. gruffness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gruffness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gruffness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The characteristic or quality of being gruff

Similar:
huskiness, brusqueness, curtness, abruptness, shortness, hoarseness, gruffiness, grizzliness, grizzledness, grittiness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, kindness, amiability

Adjectives:
mock, certain, usual, sudden, pretended, national, assumed, apparent, unusual, old, characteristic

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Similar:
huskiness, brusqueness, curtness, abruptness, shortness, hoarseness, gruffiness, grizzliness, grizzledness, grittiness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, kindness, amiability

Adjectives:
mock, certain, usual, sudden, pretended, national, assumed, apparent, unusual, old, characteristic



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