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asperous

asperous adjective: rough, rugged, uneven.

Adjective

asperous (comparative more asperous, superlative most asperous)

  1. Rough, rugged, uneven.
  2. Bitter, cruel, severe.
    • [T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fifteenth Treatise. The Duties of a Christian towards Enemies. §. II. The Averseness to this Duty Ariseth from Our Corrupted Nature, Promoted by Divers Subtile Temptations...
    • And as their valour, so you trow, defied / on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, / so many changing skies their manhood tried, / such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar; […]1880, Camoens [i.e., Luís de Camões], “Canto I”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., edited by Isabel Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads): […], volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, stanza...

Forms of asperous

comparativemore asperous
superlativemost asperous

Origin of asperous

From Latin asper (“rough, coarse”) + -ous.

Words formed from asperous

Questions about asperous

What does asperous mean?
Asperous means rough, rugged, uneven.
What part of speech is asperous?
Asperous is an adjective.

Words near asperous in the dictionary

  1. Aspermont
  2. aspermous
  3. aspermy
  4. aspernomine
  5. asperoside
  6. asperous
  7. asperously
  8. asperparaline
  9. asperparalines
  10. asperphenamate
  11. aspers

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