GRUFF Synonyms

• having a hardened crust as a covering

• brusque and surly and forbidding

• having a broad or rounded end

• used of a knife or other blade; not sharp

• characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• make less intense

• make numb or insensitive

• make dull or blunt

• make less sharp

• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

• rude and boorish

• having a bad disposition; surly

• annoyed and irritable

• a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry

• a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece

• a marking that consists of lines that cross each other

• any affliction that causes great suffering

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

• extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

• annoyed and irritable

• travel across or pass over

• meet at a point

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• fold so as to resemble a cross

• to cover or extend over an area or time period

• meet and pass

• trace a line through or across

• breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• brief and to the point; effectively cut short

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

• annoyed and irritable

• annoyed and irritable

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

• showing a brooding ill humor

• having a sharp biting taste

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

• the property of being acidic

• smelling of fermentation or staleness

• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

• in an unpalatable state

• inaccurate in pitch

• showing a brooding ill humor

• go sour or spoil

• make sour or more sour

• showing a brooding ill humor

• darkened by clouds

• inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

• easily irritated or annoyed

• brusque and surly and forbidding

• deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion

• breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog

• muscular and heavily built

• deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion