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asperity
Synonyms and Antonyms of asperity
- doesn't like the asperity of most experimental music
- she responded with such asperity that we knew she was deeply offended by the question
gruffness, harshness, hostility, relentlessness, severity, sternness, vehemence
coldness, crossness, discourteousness, iciness, impoliteness, incivility, nastiness, rudeness, sourness, surliness, ungraciousness
anger, animosity, gall, jaundice, malevolence, malice, rancor, scorn, spite, spleen, venom, vindictiveness
- as a physically challenged person, he has encountered more than his share of asperities on the road to success
discomfort, inconvenience, nuisance
affliction, trial, tribulation
knock, misfortune, mishap, tragedy
bar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, pons asinorum, rub, shackle, snag, stop, trammel
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