astringent

variant
astringent adjective
tasting tart or puckery; leaving a dry, rough, or numb sensation on the tongue

Green tea is too astringent to use for tea eggs.

rough adjective
not smooth or lubricated; having friction or resistance between surfaces
obscure adjective
hard to understand or lacking fluency, specifically regarding writing style or prose
awkward
unnatural or hesitant in manner, often due to shyness or embarrassment
halting
hesitant, slow, or not fluent in speech

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.53 per million

Details

Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6F81

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)