Asperity Synonyms and Antonyms

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Hardship
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. difficulty
  2. rigor
  3. hardship
  4. severity
  5. grimness
  6. rigour
  7. vicissitude
  8. severeness
  9. rigorousness
  10. rigourousness
Roughness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. harshness
  2. unevenness
  3. acrimony
  4. bitterness
  5. briskness
  6. crabbiness
  7. difficulty
  8. hardness
  9. ruggedness
  10. hostility
  11. choppiness
  12. cragginess
  13. sourness
  14. snappishness
  15. tartness
  16. scraggliness
  17. unsmoothness

Words Related to Asperity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Asperity Sentence Examples

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

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

  • 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."