DOUCELY Antonyms

• emotionally hardened

• having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

• make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• 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

• in a harsh or unkind manner

• in a harsh and grating manner

• (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

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

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• to a severe or serious degree

• with sternness; in a severe manner

• causing great damage or hardship

• with sternness; in a severe manner

• not of the nobility

• in an unkind manner or with unkindness

• lacking in sympathy and kindness