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GRUFFER Synonyms

14 synonyms for gruffer. (exact relations)
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gruff

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• brusque and surly and forbidding

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

brusquer

verb

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deeper

verb, adverb, adjective

v, adv, adj

adjective

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

noun

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

adverb

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

adjective satellite

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

harsher

adverb, adjective

adv, adj

adjective

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

adjective satellite

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

hoarser

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

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

raspier

adjective

adj

adjective

• (of sound) Rough, raw, especially used to describe vocal quality.

• Irritable.

rougher

adjective

adj

adjective

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

noun

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

adverb

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

adjective satellite

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

verb

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

throatier

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• sounding as if pronounced low in the throat

crusty

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• having a hardened crust as a covering

• brusque and surly and forbidding

curmudgeonly

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• brusque and surly and forbidding

hoarse

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

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

husky

noun, adjective

n, adj

noun

• breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog

adjective satellite

• muscular and heavily built

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

ill-humored

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• brusque and surly and forbidding

ill-humoured

adjective

adj

adjective satellite

• brusque and surly and forbidding

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