Synonyms:
- Unpleasantly coarse
- Scratchy beyond belief
- Like sandpaper on the soul
- Abrading at every touch
- Hard and unforgiving
- Prickly to the extreme
- Not gentle in the slightest
- Rugged and unkind
- Grating on contact
- The opposite of smooth
- An assault on the fingertips
- Texturally offensive