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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter, nasty (weather) |
| Synonyms: | brutal, cold, foul, hard, harsh, intemperate, raw, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stormy, tempestuous, violent, wintry |
| Antonyms: | clear, mild, nice, sunny |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, distressing |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, annoying, bad, brutal, calamitous, cruel, dire, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, disturbing, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, heartbreaking, hurtful, inclement, intemperate, intense, merciless, offensive, poignant, provoking, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, savage, severe, sharp, stinging, unpalatable, unpleasant, vexatious, woeful |
| Antonyms: | good, helping, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | blustery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy |
| Synonyms: | gusting, gusty, howling, inclement, raging, roaring, rough, tempestuous, turbulent, violent, wild, windy |
| Antonyms: | calm, still |
| Main Entry: | choppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wavy |
| Synonyms: | inclement, ripply, rough, uneven, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, smooth |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, freezing |
| Synonyms: | Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
| Antonyms: | hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, ruthless |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, antagonistic, austere, bitter, bleak, brutal, callous, cold, cold fish, cold-blooded, dark, disagreeable, distressing, dour, exacting, grievous, grim, hard as nails, hard-boiled, harsh, hostile, inclement, intemperate, intolerable, obdurate, painful, perverse, pitiless, rancorous, resentful, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, strict, stringent, stubborn, thick-skinned, tough, unfeeling, unjust, unkind, unpleasant, unrelenting, unsparing, unsympathetic, vengeful |
| Antonyms: | merciful, mild, nice, pleasant, sensitive, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | rigorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe; exact |
| Synonyms: | accurate, ascetic, austere, bitter, brutal, burdensome, correct, definite, dogmatic, exacting, hard, harsh, inclement, inflexible, intemperate, ironhanded, meticulous, nice, onerous, oppressive, precise, proper, punctilious, right, rigid, rugged, scrupulous, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, uncompromising, unpermissive |
| Notes: | rigorous means demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; vigorous means strong and active physically or mentally |
| Antonyms: | easy, easy-going, lax, lenient, loose, mild |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy; not quiet |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustering, blustery, boisterous, buffeting, cacophonous, choppy, coarse, discordant, dry, furious, grating, gruff, harsh, hoarse, husky, inclement, inharmonious, jarring, raging, rasping, raucous, rugged, squally, stridulent, tempestuous, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unmusical, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate, temperate |
| Main Entry: | rugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, violent |
| Synonyms: | bitter, brutal, difficult, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, rigorous, rough, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, mild, moderate |
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