Grating and Hard-nosed

Grating adjective - Disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sense.

Hard-nosed and grating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hard-nosed" instead an adjective "Grating".

Nearby Words: grate, grated, gratingly, grater

Hard-nosed adjective - Sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion.

Grating and hard-nosed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grating" instead an adjective phrase "Hard-nosed".