Asperity synonyms

ă-spĕr'ĭ-tē

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ill temper
Acrimony
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bitterness
The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment
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sharpness
(Countable) The product or result of being sharp.
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rigor
Rigor is something strict, severe or demanding.
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severity
Keenness, as of pain; intensity
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difficulty
The condition or quality of being difficult:
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harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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unevenness
A rough or uneven thing.
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ruggedness
The state of being, or degree to which something is rugged.
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roughness (related)
The property of being rough, coarseness.
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rudeness (related)
A rude remark or behaviour.
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briskness
The property of being brisk.
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crabbiness
The state of being crabby
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hardness
The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
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hostility
(Countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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sourness
The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
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tartness
The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste; sourness; bitterness.
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mildness (antonym)
The quality of being mild; gentleness
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happiness (antonym)
The definition of happiness is the state of joy, peace and tranquility.
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calmness (antonym)
(Countable) The product of being calm.
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kindness (antonym)
The state, quality, or habit of being kind
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hardship
A thing or circumstance that causes ongoing or persistent suffering or difficulty:
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vicissitude
Vicissitude is an unpredictable change in your luck or circumstances.
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a hard (or tough) nut to crack
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a hard (or tough) row to hoe
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heavy sledding
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easy (related)
Something that obstructs progress and requires great effort to overcome
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grimness
The characteristic or quality of being grim
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rigour
(UK, slang) Common misspelling of rigor. An abbreviated form of rigour mortis.
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severeness
The property of being severe.
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rigorousness
The property of being rigorous, strictness.
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rigourousness
Nonstandard spelling of rigorousness.
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choppiness
The state of being choppy
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cragginess
The state of being craggy
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scraggliness
Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
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snappishness
The quality of being snappish.
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unsmoothness
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abruptness (related)
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vehemence (related)
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nonchalance (related)
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Asperity Sentence Examples

  • His policy had aroused German jealousy, which became evident in the asperity with which the question of Morocco was handled in Berlin.

  • Bert adds the asperity of his Scottish voice to a lilting, traditional ballad called " House Carpenter " .

  • The discontented condition of Upper Canada drew him into politics., and on the 18th of May 1824 he published at Queenston the first number of the Colonial Advocate, in which the ruling oligarchy was attacked with great asperity.

  • But after his stay at Malta, Coleridge announced to his friends that he had given up his "Socinianism" (of which ever afterwards he spoke with asperity), professing a return to Christian faith, though still putting on it a mystical construction, as when he told Crabb Robinson that "Jesus Christ was a Platonic philosopher."

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