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Hard

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Definitions for Hard

adjective
not easy
Synonyms
difficult
Examples
  1. requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
  2. a difficult task
  3. nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access
  4. difficult times
  5. why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
adjective
dispassionate
Examples
  1. took a hard look
  2. a hard bargainer
adjective
resisting weight or pressure
adjective
very strong or vigorous
Synonyms
knockout severe
Examples
  1. strong winds
  2. a hard left to the chin
  3. a knockout punch
  4. a severe blow
adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
Synonyms
arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome
Examples
  1. especially physical effort
  2. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
  3. a grueling campaign
  4. hard labor
  5. heavy work
  6. heavy going
  7. spent many laborious hours on the project
  8. set a punishing pace
adjective
produced without vibration of the vocal cords
Synonyms
unvoiced voiceless surd
Examples
  1. unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'
adjective
(of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
Synonyms
concentrated
adjective
(of speech sounds)
Examples
  1. produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
  2. Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants
adjective
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Synonyms
intemperate heavy
Examples
  1. a hard drinker
adjective
being distilled rather than fermented
Synonyms
strong
Examples
  1. having a high alcoholic content
  2. hard liquor
adjective
unfortunate or hard to bear
Synonyms
tough
Examples
  1. had hard luck
  2. a tough break
adjective
dried out
Examples
  1. hard dry rolls left over from the day before
adverb
with effort or force or vigor
Examples
  1. the team played hard
  2. worked hard all day
  3. pressed hard on the lever
  4. hit the ball hard
  5. slammed the door hard
adverb
with firmness
Synonyms
firmly
Examples
  1. held hard to the railing
adverb
earnestly or intently
Examples
  1. thought hard about it
  2. stared hard at the accused
adverb
causing great damage or hardship
Synonyms
severely
Examples
  1. industries hit hard by the depression
  2. she was severely affected by the bank's failure
adverb
slowly and with difficulty
Synonyms
hardly
Examples
  1. prejudices die hard
  2. he was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight
adverb
indulging excessively
Synonyms
heavily intemperately
Examples
  1. he drank heavily
adverb
into a solid condition
Examples
  1. concrete that sets hard within a few hours
adverb
very near or close in space or time
Examples
  1. it stands hard by the railroad tracks
  2. they were hard on his heels
  3. a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening
adverb
with pain or distress or bitterness
Examples
  1. he took the rejection very hard
adverb
to the full extent possible
Examples
  1. all the way
  2. hard alee
  3. the ship went hard astern
  4. swung the wheel hard left

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