Harsh and unpleasant.
Abrasive; tending to annoy.
An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
The sound made by something that grates against something else.
The loose material that comes from something being grated.
Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
Higher in pitch than required.
Intelligent.
Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
Illegal or dishonest.
Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
Tactical; risky.
Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Stylish or attractive.
Sudden and intense.
Observant; alert; acute.
A note that is sharp in a particular key.
Something that is sharp.
A dishonest person; a cheater.
Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
A sharp tool or weapon.
A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
A hypodermic syringe.
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
Exactly.
In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.