Synonyms for Gruff:

• adj.

  •abrupt (adjective)
  • direct,
  • gruff,
  • impetuous,
  • matter-of-fact.
  •bluff (adjective)
  • downright,
  • frank,
  • forthright,
  • straightforward,
  • barefaced,
  • tart,
  • unceremonious,
  • candid,
  • laconic,
  • sincere,
  • terse,
  • hearty,
  • Snippety,
  • honest,
  • open,
  • outspoken,
  • blustering,
  • no-nonsense,
  • Plain-spoken.
  •blunt (adjective)
  • explicit,
  • unpolished,
  • trenchant.
  •boorish (adjective)
  • provincial,
  • uneducated,
  • countrified,
  • barbaric,
  • vulgar,
  • oafish,
  • uncultured,
  • loud,
  • Unpoised,
  • tasteless,
  • ugly,
  • uncouth,
  • Inurbane,
  • uncivilized,
  • unrefined,
  • ornery,
  • clumsy,
  • rustic.
  •brusque (adjective)
  • sharp,
  • hasty.
  •brutal (adjective)
  • ferocious,
  • heartless,
  • insensitive,
  • merciless,
  • savage,
  • unfeeling,
  • hard,
  • remorseless,
  • barbarous,
  • pitiless,
  • unmerciful,
  • severe,
  • ruthless,
  • inhuman,
  • callous,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • vicious.
  •churlish (adjective)
  • cussed,
  • miserly,
  • base,
  • unsociable,
  • mean.
  •coarse (adjective)
  • 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.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • 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.
  •curt (adjective)
  • peremptory,
  • more compendiary,
  • most compendiary,
  • short sweet.
  •gruff (adjective)
  • cracked,
  • dour,
  • grating,
  • ill-natured,
  • saturnine,
  • sour,
  • crude,
  • nasty,
  • boisterous,
  • low,
  • truculent,
  • short,
  • offhand,
  • fierce,
  • crabby,
  • crabbed,
  • unmannerly.
  •guttural (adjective)
  • gravelly,
  • glottal.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hoarse (adjective)
  • breathier,
  • in-distinct,
  • more stridulous,
  • breathiest,
  • in distinct,
  • stertorous,
  • more stertorous,
  • most squawking,
  • most stertorous,
  • most stridulous,
  • more squawking,
  • un even,
  • croupiest,
  • un-even.
  •morose (adjective)
  • 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.
  •raucous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •roiled (adjective)
  • tumultuous.
  •rough (adjective)
  • roiled,
  • stridulent,
  • squally.
  •rough-and-tumble (adjective)
  • rough and tumble,
  • knockabout.
  •rude (adjective)
  • in-solent,
  • in solent.
  •severe (adjective)
  • 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.
  •short (adjective)
  • shortest.
  •short-spoken (adjective)
  • shortspoken,
  • short spoken.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered.
  •snippy (adjective)
  • sharptongued,
  • sharp tongued.
  •sulky (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • tenebrific.
  •tactless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •throaty (adjective)
  • jugular,
  • Gular.
  •uncivil (adjective)
  • more mannerless,
  • un-civil,
  • un gentlemanly,
  • most mannerless,
  • un civil,
  • mannerless,
  • un-gentlemanly.
  •unfriendly (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ungracious (adjective)
  • dis-respectful,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un-gracious,
  • dis respectful,
  • un fortunate,
  • un gracious.
  •unpolitic (adjective)
  • un-politic,
  • un politic.
  •untactful (adjective)
  • un-tactful,
  • un tactful.

• n.

  •
  • ill-mannered,
  • insolent,
  • impudent,
  • smart,
  • impertinent,
  • abrasive,
  • offensive.
  •
  • appealing,
  • disembodied,
  • dead,
  • fruity,
  • brittle,
  • adenoidal,
  • flat.
  •
  • brief,
  • attitude.
  •brusque (noun)
  • irritable.
  •cacophonic (noun)
  • cacophonic.
  •cacophonous (noun)
  • cacophonous.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Antonyms for Gruff:

• adj.

  • abrupt
    kind, calm.
  • blunt
    tactful, subtle.
  • boorish
    cultured, refined, charming, sophisticated, exciting.
  • brusque
    courteous.
  • brutal
    humane, generous.
  • churlish
    gentle.
  • gruff
    happy, polite, pleasant, sweet, nice, even-tempered, soft.
  • Other antonyms:
    gliding, amiable, indulgent, liquid, bright, playful, sympathetic, scatterbrained, mellifluous, tranquil, harebrained, smooth, silken, quiet, lighthearted, silly, agreeable, genial, satiny, frivolous, velvety, good-natured, friendly, inviting, merry, melodious, meek, golden, euphonous, goofy, mirthful, musical, featherbrained, melodic, lyric, cheerful, complaisant, glad, sunny, loving, easy, flighty, giddy, lyrical, light-headed.