asperous

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

asperous (comparative more asperous, superlative most asperous)

  1. rough, rugged, uneven
  2. bitter, cruel, severe
    • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
      "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[.]"

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