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gruffadjective harsh and dry in soundshe had a gruff speaking voice, but a surprisingly sweet singing voice coarse, croaking, croaky, grating, gravel, gravelly, hoarse, husky, rasping, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty growling, growly, gutturalabrasive, cacophonous, discordant, grinding, jarring, rough, scraping, scratchingcawing, raucous, screeching, squawking, stridentchoked, cracked, strained, strangleddissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical gentle, gliding, golden, liquid, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, soothing, sweet, tendersatiny, silken, smooth, soft, velvetyeuphonious, lyric, lyrical, melodic, melodious, musical harsh and threatening in manner or appearanceI didn't exchange one word with the gruff mountaineer who sat next to me in the diner austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, intimidating, lowering(also louring), rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentle bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticadamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinchingfixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful)immutable, unchangeableblack, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surlybrooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber(or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender bland, meek, mellow, soft, soothingeasy, quiet, tranquilagreeable, bright, cheerful, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, sweetglad, happy, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sunnyfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, playful, scatterbrained, silly bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner.bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness and unconventionality.a bluff manner blunt suggests directness of expression in disregard of others' feelings.a blunt appraisal brusque applies to a sharpness or ungraciousness.a brusque response curt implies disconcerting shortness or rude conciseness.a curt command crusty suggests a harsh or surly manner sometimes concealing an inner kindliness.a crusty exterior gruff suggests a hoarse or husky speech which may imply bad temper but more often implies embarrassment or shyness.puts on a gruff pose in 1691 |