Synonyms of gruff

1 Syllable

short, blunt, bluff, rough, sour, dour, curt

2 Syllables

grumpy, snippy, loutish, tactless, curter, cloddish, roiled, crabby, swinish, squally, husky, surly, squallier, incult, glottal, crabbed, sulky, croupier, brutal, bluffed, throatier, fierce, raspy, crustier, crude, breathier, throaty, coarsest, boorish, sullen, gular, pouty, crusty, grouchy, breathy, hoarser, bearish, huskier, croaking, clownish, bluffer, churlish, coarser, ruder, abrupt, snappy, rudest, croaky, croupy, snippier, brusque, raucous, nasty, offhand

3 Syllables

discourteous, guttural, ungracious, clodhopping, vulgarian, untactful, truculent, mannerless, uncivil, atonal, stertorous, short-spoken, jugular, sourpussed, unfriendly, boisterous, absonant, morose

4 Syllables

ill-natured, philistine, bad-mannered, saturnine, unmannerly, short-tempered, out-of-order, impolite, inurbane, perversive, unneighborly

5 Syllables

undiplomatic

6 Syllables

unconsiderate