Asperity

Quick meaning: Asperity is a noun meaning Of sound: gratingness, harshness.

Meaning

Of sound: gratingness, harshness.

More Meanings

1. Of taste: harshness or sharpness; acridity, tartness.
2. Of writing: a lack of elegance and refinement; inelegance, roughness.
3. (uncountable) The quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion.
4. The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience; (countable) a thing that is harsh and difficult to endure; a difficulty, a hardship.
5. The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one behaves or speaks toward another person; (countable, chiefly in the plural) a deeply hostile or resentful feeling; an animosity, a hatred.

Example Sentences

the asperity of Maine’s winter

A match flickers, a lantern lights up the asperities of the mud wall; the window goes black.

Oyle of ſwete Almondes and of ſiſami taketh away the aſperitie and rougheneſſe of the throte.

This Iſland [Corsica] has ever been ill Inhabited, by reaſon of the Aſperity of a great part of it, and the great difficulty of approaching it.

Word Forms

• asperities

Synonyms for asperity

Depending on context, synonyms include bumpiness, ruggedness, bump, protuberance, harshness, rigour.

Antonyms for asperity

Common opposites include smoothness, bluntness, dullness, dulness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grimness, severity, hardship, rigour, rigor, rigorousness.

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