Roughness to the touch; opposed to softness and smoothness.

Sourness; austereness; as the harshness of fruit.

Roughness to the ear; as the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse. ‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness.

Roughness in manner or words; severity; as the harshness of reproof.