hard-featured

[ hahrd-fee-cherd ]

adjective

1. having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.

Other Words From

• hard-featured·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-featured¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

Her appearance always acted as a damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid, she had no point to which interest could attach.

From Literature

I was standing before him; he fixed his eyes on me very steadily: his eyes were small and grey; not very bright, but I dare say I should think them shrewd now: he had a hard-featured yet good-natured looking face.

From Literature

Each one is a solemn, hard-featured picture that stands apart by itself and has no connecting link with any other one in the language.

From Project Gutenberg

On a hot summer morning, they might be seen lounging about the trading-house, basking in the sun, begging for a dram of whiskey, or chaffering with the hard-featured trader for beads, tobacco, gunpowder, and red paint.

From Project Gutenberg

She looked quite her age now: all suggestion of the young girl had gone, she was a stern, hard-featured woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• awful
• grisly
• grotesque
• hideous
• horrid
• unseemly
• unsightly