Translation Japanese English: 険しい

1 Olympian, austere, dignified, gallant, grave, hard-and-fast, lofty, majestic, proud, rigid, sedate, severe, sober, solemn, stern, strict, terrible, wicked.

2 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.

3 Spartan, acute, austere, exacting, hard-and-fast, intense, rigid, severe, stern, strict, terrible, wicked.

4 Spartan, acute, exacting, gallant, hard-and-fast, harsh, intense, lofty, majestic, proud, rigid, rough, rugged, severe, stern, strict, terrible, tight, tough, unsparing, wicked.

5 Spartan, ascetic, ascetical, austere, severe, stark, stern.

6 Spartan, austere, exacting, severe, steep, stern, strict.

7 abrasive, coarse, harsh, rough.

8 abrupt, high-pitched, rapid, speedy, steep, sudden.

9 absolute, bluff, bold, cobwebby, diaphanous, downright, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, out-and-out, plain, rank, right-down, see-through, sheer, transparent, unmingled, unmixed, vaporous, vapourous.

10 acute, critical, dangerous, decisive, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe, terrible, wicked.

11 alarming, critical, decisive.

12 approximate, approximative, boisterous, bumpy, crude, fierce, grating, gravelly, harsh, jolting, jolty, jumpy, pugnacious, rasping, raspy, rocky, rough, scratchy, uncut, unsmooth.

13 arduous, austere, awkward, backbreaking, callous, difficult, dour, embarrassing, fibrous, forbidding, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, heavy, indurate, knockout, laborious, operose, pachydermatous, punishing, rocky, rough, severe, sinewy, stern, sticky, stiff, stifling, stringy, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, toilsome, tough, toughened, unchewable, unenviable, unyielding.

14 arduous, backbreaking, bad, big, critical, decisive, dreadful, formidable, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, knockout, laborious, operose, punishing, rocky, rough, severe, terrible, toilsome, wicked.

15 arduous, steep, straining, strenuous.

16 austere, bluff, bold, critical, harsh, rocky, rough, sheer, steep, stern.

17 austere, boisterous, critical, fierce, rough, steep, stern.

18 austere, dark, dour, forbidding, glowering, glum, grating, gravelly, grim, moody, morose, rasping, raspy, rough, saturnine, scratchy, sour, stern, sullen.

19 austere, exacting, grim, inexorable, relentless, severe, stark, stern, strict, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting.

20 austere, heavy, lowering, stern, sullen, threatening.

21 bad, big, harsh, rough, severe, terrible, wicked.

22 barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, harsh, merciless, rough, roughshod, savage, unmerciful, vicious.

23 bouldered, bouldery, bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough, stony.

24 clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, crisp, decipherable, discrete, distinct, readable, sharp, steep.

25 critical, crying, dangerous, desperate, dire, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, grievous, gross, life-threatening, low, low-pitched, rank, sedate, serious, severe, sober, solemn.

26 critical, dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, incertain, life-threatening, risky, serious, severe, uncertain, unsafe, unsure, wild.

27 critical, decisive, vital.

28 exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious.

29 harsh, merciless, rough, unforgiving, unmerciful.