Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort

• severe

  1. Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
  2. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
  3. Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:

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  1. Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
  2. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
  3. Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:

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• rough

  1. Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
  2. Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
  3. Difficult to travel over or through:

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  1. Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
  2. Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
  3. Difficult to travel over or through:

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• harsh

  1. Unpleasantly sharp or rough
  2. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
  3. Severe, cruel, or exacting:

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  1. Unpleasantly sharp or rough
  2. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
  3. Severe, cruel, or exacting:

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• hard

  1. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  2. Lacking in shade; undiminished:
  3. Definite; firm:

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  1. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  2. Lacking in shade; undiminished:
  3. Definite; firm:

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• bitter

  1. Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment:
  2. Designating or having a sharp, often unpleasant taste; acrid, as quinine or peach stones
  3. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:

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  1. Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment:
  2. Designating or having a sharp, often unpleasant taste; acrid, as quinine or peach stones
  3. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:

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Cruel

• unmerciful

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• pitiless

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Crude

• rude

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• unfeeling

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• coarse

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