Translation Japanese English: 刺々しい

1 Spartan, acute, austere, cutting, dangerous, dour, edged, forbidding, grave, grievous, grim, hard, harsh, heavy-handed, inexorable, intemperate, knockout, life-threatening, relentless, rigorous, rough, roughshod, serious, severe, stern, stinging, stringent, terrible, tight, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding, wicked.

2 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acute, bitter, blistering, caustic, cutting, discriminating, edged, hard-hitting, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, stifling, stinging, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, trenchant, virulent, vitriolic.

3 acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, cutting, edged, severe, stinging, sulfurous, sulphurous, terrible, virulent, vitriolic, wicked.

4 bad-tempered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, dark, dour, fussy, glowering, glum, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, moody, morose, ornery, saturnine, sour, sullen, surly, ugly.

5 barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, stabbing, stinging, thorny.

6 biting, bitter, brusk, brusque, curt, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, short, stabbing, stinging.

7 bleak, cutting, edged, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, raw, stabbing, stinging.

8 bloody-minded, cantankerous, crotchety, ornery.

9 cantankerous, churlish, crotchety, ornery, surly, ugly, unsociable.

10 cantankerous, crotchety, cutting, edged, ornery, stinging.