Meaning of سختی in English

Sharpness; keenness.
The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
Ardency.
The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
Severity; strictness; austerity.
Brutality.
Insensibility.
Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Difficulty.
The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
State of being gravelly.
of Grudge
Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.
Capability of endurance.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
Hardship; fatigue.
Somewhat hard.
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
The quality or state of being harsh.
The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.
Wrathfulness.
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
The quality or state of being pithy.
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Like a rig or wanton.
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Severity; rigor.
The quality or state of being rigid.
Rigidity; stiffness.
A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
See 1st Rigor, 2.
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
Violence; force; fury.
Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Severity, as of style, or the like.
Alt. of Somnolency
The quality or state of being sordid.
Sortilege.
See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
The quality or state of being stern.
The act of sneezing.
of Sty
The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
The ruddy duck.
Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.
Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
The quality or state of being stony.
The state or quality of being stout.
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
Strenuousness; activity.
The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Quality or state of being strict.
Strictness.
A stroke; a glance; a touch.
A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
Set with stiff, slender bristles.
Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
The quality or state of being stringent.
The state of being strumous.
of Stub
The state of being stumpy.
Quality of being sturdy.
To vex; to annoy; to startle.
Disturbance; annoyance; care.
A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
A corruption of Nasturtion.
The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
of Toil
The qualityy or state of being torpid.
The quality or state of being torrid or parched.
Translucency; as, the tralucency of a gem.