Excruciating vs Harsh - What's the difference?
excruciating | harsh |
Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
Exceedingly intense; extreme
Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
Severe or cruel.
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(slang) To negatively criticize.
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(slang) to put a damper on (a mood).
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As adjectives the difference between excruciating and harsh
is that excruciating is causing great pain or anguish, agonizing while harsh is unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.As a verb harsh is
(slang) to negatively criticize.excruciating
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry (rfdate)
harsh
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Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=Great news for City, but the result was harsh on Neil Warnock's side who gave as good as they got even though the odds were stacked against them.}}
Antonyms
* genteelVerb
(es)- Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
- Dude, you're harshing my buzz.