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Slow to perceive, understand, or feel; dull or insensitive:
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- Slow to perceive, understand, or feel; dull or insensitive:
- Having a dull edge or point; not sharp
- Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech:
Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
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- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
- Lacking polish or finesse:
Having, resembling, or being a crust:
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- Having, resembling, or being a crust:
- Outspoken and surly. Used especially of older people.
- Rough and outspoken; not patient, kindly, or refined
Bad-tempered; sullenly rude; hostile and uncivil
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- Bad-tempered; sullenly rude; hostile and uncivil
- Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous:
- Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
Severe, cruel, or exacting:
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- Severe, cruel, or exacting:
- Unpleasantly sharp or rough
- Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
Irritating or annoying
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- Irritating or annoying
- Harsh and rasping
Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
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- Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
- Lacking polish or finesse:
- Sounding harsh; discordant; jarring
abrupt
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blunt
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irritable
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rude
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hoarse
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blunt
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Unexpectedly sudden:
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- Unexpectedly sudden:
- (Botany) Terminating suddenly rather than gradually; truncate:
- Touching on one subject after another with sudden transitions:
Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
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- Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
- Having a dull edge or point; not sharp
- Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech:
Using relatively few words; concise
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- Using relatively few words; concise
- Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
- Short in length
- Rudely abrupt, unfriendly.
- Rough and abrupt in manner or speech; curt
Having, resembling, or being a crust:
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- Having, resembling, or being a crust:
- Rough and outspoken; not patient, kindly, or refined
- Outspoken and surly. Used especially of older people.
Brief, esp. to the point of rudeness; terse or brusque
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- Brief, esp. to the point of rudeness; terse or brusque
- Rudely brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner:
- (Archaic) Short or shortened
Extending or traveling not far or not far enough:
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- Extending or traveling not far or not far enough:
- Lasting a brief time:
- (--- popularly) Not diphthongized [the short a in “pan”]
Using only a few words; laconic
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- Using only a few words; laconic
- Brief to the point of rudeness; curt
- Given to shortness or abruptness in manner or speech; curt.
- (Of a sound) Like that of a frog
Heavily built:
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- Heavily built:
- Hoarse or rough in quality:
- Sounding deep and hoarse; rough
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Find another word for gruff. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for gruff, like: blunt, rough, crusty, surly, harsh, grating, rough, abrupt, blunt, irritable and rude.
