BENIGNER Antonyms

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• lacking charm and good taste

• lacking social graces

• lacking kindness

• deficient in humane and kindly feelings

• Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.

• Harsh; severe.

• Cool; awesome; neat.

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

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• Common; general.

• Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.

• Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.

• Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.

• Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

• Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

• Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating

• Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.

• Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another

• Powerful; fierce; strong

• Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.

• Difficult, tricky.

• One who means or intends something.

• 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

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

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

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (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

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe