I am writing an article, and I want to say that "harsh things were exchange between the two leaders" but I am looking for a different word for "harsh". is there in subsitute that sounds better? higher English? more posh? does harsh sound official enough?
2007-02-21 03:20:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You would be better saying "harsh words" rather than things.
2007-02-21 03:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by madamspud 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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I am writing an article, and I want to say that "harsh things were exchange between the two leaders" but I am looking for a different word for "harsh". is there in subsitute that sounds better? higher English? more posh? does harsh sound official enough?
2015-08-18 16:24:30 · answer #4 · answered by Fatimah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bitter is a good word - my favorite out of these....
Entry Word: harsh
Function: adjective
Text: 1 difficult to endure
Synonyms bitter, brutal, burdensome, cruel, excruciating, grievous, grim, hard, heavy, inhuman, murderous, onerous, oppressive, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, tough, trying
Related Words austere, bleak, comfortless, discomforting, forbidding, hostile, inhospitable, Spartan, uncomfortable; biting, inclement, intemperate; rigorous, strict, stringent; agonizing, heartbreaking, heartrending, painful, wretched; crushing, grinding, overwhelming, wearing; insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable; harrowing, tortuous; bad, disagreeable, hostile, unfriendly, unpleasant
2007-02-21 03:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by CaptDare 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
harsh is fine, don't worry about sounding intellectual, write natural, in fact, it'd be a better world if we'd all throw away our thesauruses.
Really, write natural, people can tell when you're writing with a dictionary or thesaurus next to you.
2007-02-21 19:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by Dan A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are online thesauruses and dictionaries, as some of the people above have stated. I use them all the time (actually I use MS Word's built-in thesaurus because it's a little faster).
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2007-02-21 03:26:59 · answer #7 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soft -- were not able to find grounds for common agreement
Hyperbolic -- "were at the edge of being at each other's throat"
Oblique -- made the interpreters sweat with their angry verbiage
Maybe 'harsh' pretty much gets it.
2007-02-21 03:26:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
unpleasant, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, merciless, mean, unsparing, severe, stern, ungentle, unkind, abusive, vindictive, heartless, draconian, heardhearted, brutal, bitter, caustic, hard, rough, sharp, uncharitable.
If you write articles on a regular basis, you really should get a Thesaurus
2007-02-21 03:28:00 · answer #9 · answered by Raising6Ducklings! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-04 14:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by Isabella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋