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Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈʌf], [ ɡɹˈʌf], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈʌ_f]
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Similar words for gruff:
- abrupt (adjective)
- bluff (adjective)
- blunt (adjective)
- boorish (adjective)
- brusque (adjective)
- brutal (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- coarse (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- curt (adjective)
- gruff (adjective)
- guttural (adjective)
- harsh (adjective)
- hoarse (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- raucous (adjective)
- roiled (adjective)
- rough (adjective)
- rough-and-tumble (adjective)
- rude (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- short-spoken (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- snippy (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- tactless (adjective)
- throaty (adjective)
- uncivil (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- ungracious (adjective)
- unpolitic (adjective)
- untactful (adjective)
- brusque (noun)
- cacophonic (noun)
- cacophonous (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Gruff:
adj.
• abrupt (adjective) • bluff (adjective)- downright,
- frank,
- forthright,
- straightforward,
- barefaced,
- tart,
- unceremonious,
- candid,
- laconic,
- sincere,
- terse,
- hearty,
- Snippety,
- honest,
- open,
- outspoken,
- blustering,
- no-nonsense,
- Plain-spoken.
- provincial,
- uneducated,
- countrified,
- barbaric,
- vulgar,
- oafish,
- uncultured,
- loud,
- Unpoised,
- tasteless,
- ugly,
- uncouth,
- Inurbane,
- uncivilized,
- unrefined,
- ornery,
- clumsy,
- rustic.
- ferocious,
- heartless,
- insensitive,
- merciless,
- savage,
- unfeeling,
- hard,
- remorseless,
- barbarous,
- pitiless,
- unmerciful,
- severe,
- ruthless,
- inhuman,
- callous,
- bloodthirsty,
- vicious.
- cussed,
- miserly,
- base,
- unsociable,
- mean.
- dirty,
- inelegant,
- obscene,
- bawdy,
- gross,
- smutty,
- indelicate,
- filthy,
- scatological,
- common,
- uncultivated,
- lowdown and dirty,
- improper,
- ribald,
- raffish,
- foul,
- off-color,
- roughneck,
- tacky,
- earthy,
- vulgarian,
- cheap,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- immodest,
- impure,
- crass.
- most vinegary,
- more snarling,
- more vinegary,
- more splenetic,
- most ill humored,
- more illhumored,
- splenetic,
- most splenetic,
- most illhumored,
- more ill-humored,
- more ill humored,
- most ill-humored,
- most snarling,
- ill humored,
- illhumored.
- cracked,
- dour,
- grating,
- ill-natured,
- saturnine,
- sour,
- crude,
- nasty,
- boisterous,
- low,
- truculent,
- short,
- offhand,
- fierce,
- crabby,
- crabbed,
- unmannerly.
- hard nosed,
- un kind,
- un pleasant,
- hard boiled,
- more hard nosed,
- hard-nosed,
- un kindest,
- un relenting,
- un-kind,
- un-kinder,
- un kinder,
- un-kindest,
- hardshell,
- un-pleasant.
- breathier,
- in-distinct,
- more stridulous,
- breathiest,
- in distinct,
- stertorous,
- more stertorous,
- most squawking,
- most stertorous,
- most stridulous,
- more squawking,
- un even,
- croupiest,
- un-even.
- down the mouth,
- having blahs,
- more perversive,
- most moping,
- down dumps,
- most perversive,
- down mouth,
- singing blues,
- in a blue funk,
- more moping,
- down the dumps.
- croaking,
- Unpolitic,
- swinish,
- out-of-order,
- hoarse,
- breviloquent,
- bluff,
- sullen,
- brutal,
- clownish,
- coarse,
- anti-social,
- curt,
- croupy,
- atonal,
- ear-piercing,
- perversive,
- Stridulous,
- cloddish,
- down in dumps,
- loutish,
- Unconsiderate,
- ill-disposed,
- vinegary,
- Clodhopping,
- in bad mood,
- hard shell,
- unneighborly,
- untactful,
- boorish,
- croaky,
- rough,
- Incult,
- illbred,
- unfriendly,
- tactless,
- churlish,
- down in the dumps,
- short-tempered,
- singing the blues,
- raucous,
- hardboiled,
- rude,
- blunt,
- breathy,
- Absonant,
- brusque,
- in a bad mood,
- pouty,
- foul-mouthed,
- bad-mannered,
- ungracious,
- croupier,
- guttural,
- in blue funk,
- brutish,
- having the blahs,
- no nonsense,
- out-of-line,
- crusty,
- ill-bred,
- matter of fact,
- lowbred,
- bearish,
- hardnosed,
- throaty,
- having blue devils,
- harsh,
- uncivil,
- compendiary,
- snippy,
- down in mouth,
- sourpussed,
- out of line,
- undiplomatic,
- Short-spoken,
- husky.
- in harmonious,
- earpiercing,
- more ear piercing,
- more braying,
- dis-sonant,
- un-harmonious,
- most atonal,
- most braying,
- in-harmonious,
- dis sonant,
- more atonal,
- more absonant,
- unharmonious,
- more earpiercing,
- un harmonious,
- most earpiercing,
- most absonant,
- most ear-piercing,
- most ear piercing,
- un-musical,
- more ear-piercing,
- ear piercing,
- un musical.
- critical,
- chilly,
- stark,
- icy,
- imperial,
- inflexible,
- astringent,
- lean,
- austere,
- fundamental,
- draconian,
- frosty,
- relentless,
- hidebound,
- rigorous,
- demanding,
- brisk,
- grim,
- unbending,
- oppressive,
- exacting,
- correct,
- intolerant,
- intense,
- piquant,
- precise,
- stiff-necked,
- acrimonious,
- spartan,
- caustic,
- spare,
- strict,
- crisp,
- basic,
- obdurate,
- cutting,
- meticulous,
- rigid,
- bleak,
- puritanical,
- acerbic,
- strait-laced,
- censorious,
- disciplined,
- keen,
- acute,
- authoritarian,
- stringent,
- prudish,
- uncompromising,
- cool,
- dry,
- obstinate,
- ascetic.
- more brooding,
- more sulking,
- most sourpussed,
- de-pressed,
- more sourpussed,
- de pressed,
- most pouting,
- most sulking,
- poutier,
- poutiest,
- most brooding,
- with drawn,
- more pouting,
- with-drawn.
- mis understanding,
- in-judicious,
- un-subtler,
- more unconsiderate,
- in-discreet,
- un-considerate,
- most unconsiderate,
- un considerate,
- mis-understanding,
- in judicious,
- more misunderstanding,
- more blundering,
- in discreet,
- most blundering,
- un sympathetic,
- un subtler,
- most misunderstanding,
- un subtle,
- un perceptive,
- un-perceptive,
- un-subtlest,
- un-subtle,
- un subtlest.
- more estranged,
- most against,
- not on speaking terms,
- un friendly,
- more illdisposed,
- un friendlier,
- most estranged,
- un-friendly,
- mis-anthropic,
- most grudging,
- dis-affected,
- in-hospitable,
- most ill-disposed,
- un-congenial,
- un-friendliest,
- ill disposed,
- in-auspicious,
- not speaking terms,
- in hospitable,
- most ill disposed,
- more grudging,
- un-charitable,
- more ill-disposed,
- mis anthropic,
- more ill disposed,
- most illdisposed,
- un-favorable,
- un congenial,
- dis-agreeable,
- un favorable,
- un charitable,
- anti social,
- dis affected,
- more against,
- un propitious,
- un-friendlier,
- in auspicious,
- dis agreeable,
- un friendliest,
- illdisposed.
n.
• brusque (noun) • cacophonic (noun) • cacophonous (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- calloused,
- harshness,
- forbidding,
- asperity,
- unwise,
- scabrous,
- petulant,
- acidic,
- beastly,
- awkward,
- crustlike,
- brutality,
- bristly,
- hot-tempered,
- raspy,
- huffy,
- cruelty,
- lowering,
- acetous,
- animal,
- cavalier,
- roughness,
- brassy,
- tetchy,
- bold,
- cranky,
- intimidating,
- disapproving,
- inept,
- impatient,
- discordant,
- steely,
- beefy,
- jarring,
- encrusted,
- gruffly,
- solemn,
- gauche,
- deep,
- po-faced,
- harsh-sounding,
- thick,
- taciturn,
- brusquely,
- hot-blooded,
- hypersensitive,
- severity,
- vinegarish,
- raggedness,
- crudity,
- inharmonious,
- seediness,
- thoughtless,
- sulky,
- saucy,
- unskilful,
- harshly,
- buirdly,
- prickly,
- philistine,
- crusted,
- outrageous,
- flippant,
- crotchety,
- rasping,
- and Irish cranky,
- pebbly,
- staccato,
- contentious,
- dyspeptic,
- choleric,
- ruggedness,
- disagreeable,
- hoarsely,
- Grum,
- coarsely,
- Uncomplaisant,
- unaccommodating,
- fleeting,
- unladylike,
- roily,
- Inaffable,
- fresh,
- Squawking,
- frowning,
- unpleasant,
- irascible,
- quarrelsome,
- sensitive,
- huffish,
- volatile,
- chutzpadik,
- grave,
- crudeness,
- stinging,
- indiscreet,
- growling,
- screeching,
- unkind,
- hotheaded,
- huskily,
- throatily,
- bad-humoured,
- abruptly,
- bilious,
- temperamental,
- hoarseness,
- Grumbly,
- shrewish,
- querulous,
- grumpish,
- unsophisticated,
- sullenly,
- disrespectful,
- touchy,
- insulting,
- grumpily,
- choked,
- acrimony,
- capricious,
- sombre,
- rough-and-tumble,
- humourless,
- repulsive,
- explosive,
- ungallant,
- austerity,
- excitable,
- serious,
- cross,
- unmusical,
- acid,
- maladroit,
- roughly,
- Raucid,
- impolitic,
- brazen,
- prim,
- unhelpful,
- ungainly,
- bluffly,
- concise,
- lugubrious,
- waspish,
- beast,
- coarseness,
- tinny,
- strangled,
- ungentlemanly,
- acerb,
- strapping,
- hardness,
- bungling,
- shabbiness,
- imprudent,
- acidulous,
- rugged,
- injudicious,
- lemony,
- ungentle,
- fretful,
- overbearing,
- aggressive,
- biting,
- gloomy,
- brute,
- rigor,
- brash,
- burly,
- squawky,
- sarcastic,
- Scabrousness,
- strident,
- ragged,
- inconsiderate,
- metallic.
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