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say it: hahrsh
harsh is an adjective meaning "unpleasantly stern". It is pronounced /ˈhɑɹʃ/ — hahrsh. It carries 6 recorded senses.
unpleasantly stern
“wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus”
“the nomad life is rough and hazardous”
unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses
“the harsh cry of a blue jay”
“harsh cognac”
“the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes”
“harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway”
of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
“coarse meal”
“coarse sand”
“a coarse weave”
sharply disagreeable; rigorous
“the harsh facts of court delays”
“an abrasive character”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for harsh come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.