˜yÐÄvlog

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

asperity

[ uh-sper-i-tee ]

noun

plural asperities.
  1. harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony:

    The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.

    Synonyms: , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. hardship; difficulty; rigor:

    the asperities of polar weather.

  3. roughness of surface; unevenness.
  4. something rough or harsh.


asperity

/ æˈ²õ±èÉ›°ùɪ³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. roughness or sharpness of temper
  2. roughness or harshness of a surface, sound, taste, etc
  3. a condition hard to endure; affliction
  4. physics the elastically compressed region of contact between two surfaces caused by the normal force
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of asperity1

1200–50; late Middle English asperite (< Anglo-French ) < Latin ²¹²õ±è±ð°ù¾±³ÙÄå²õ, equivalent to asper rough + -¾±³ÙÄå²õ -ity; replacing Middle English asprete < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin
Discover More

˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of asperity1

C16: from Latin ²¹²õ±è±ð°ù¾±³ÙÄå²õ, from asper rough
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Compared to smooth faults, injection-induced slip on rough faults produces spatially localized clusters of Acoustic Emissions occurring around highly stressed asperities.

From

On a re-read, Orwell’s narrative holds up, in large part due to the asperity of the prose and the prescient description of how fascism can creep into any society that takes freedom for granted.

From

She mentions, with some asperity, a phone call from New York when “Where Is the Voice Coming From?†appeared in The New Yorker in 1963.

From

Arch, cracking with energetic, even contemptuous asperity, it is a world apart from “Everybody.â€

From

More notable is the specificity of his satire—he has a degree in agronomy—and the seriousness of his engagement with the economic asperities of provincial France in the era of the gilets jaunes.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement