Usually means: Severe, unkind, or extremely unpleasant.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. harsh: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harsh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harsh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harsh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harsh: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harsh, harsh: Wordnik
  7. harsh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Harsh, harsh: Wiktionary
  9. harsh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harsh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harsh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harsh, harsh: Dictionary.com
  13. harsh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. harsh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Harsh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Harsh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. harsh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. harsh: Rhymezone
  19. harsh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. harsh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. harsh: Free Dictionary
  22. harsh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Harsh, harsh: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. harsh: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harsh: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. harsh, harsh: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Harsh: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Harsh: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
adjective:  Severe or cruel.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To put a damper on (a mood).
noun:  A surname.

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