gruff

gruff is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
2. adjective. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion- Virgil Thomson

   "gruff voices"

   "the dog's gruff barking"

   Synonyms: hoarse, husky

3. adjective. brusque and surly and forbidding

   "crusty remarks"

   "a crusty old man"

   Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly

Synonyms

hoarse, husky, crusty, curmudgeonly

Common word forms

gruffs, gruffed, gruffer, gruffly, gruffest, gruffing, gruffness

Words from these letters

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