The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people. / The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience. / The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.

(obsolete) Rough or harsh; severe, stern, serious.

(phonetics, obsolete) Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.

(historical) Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern Mediterranean area from the 12th to 17th centuries.

plural of asperity

To make rough or harsh.

rough

present participle of asperate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asperate

simple past tense and past participle of asperate