asperous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin asper (“rough, coarse”) + -ous.
Adjective edit
asperous (comparative more asperous, superlative most asperous)
- rough, rugged, uneven
- bitter, cruel, severe
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
- "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"