hard

Plural: hards

Adjective

• Firm and unyielding; difficult to accomplish.
• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
  • "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
• dispassionate
  • "took a hard look"
  • "a hard bargainer"
• resisting weight or pressure
• produced without vibration of the vocal cords
• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
  • "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

Adjective Satellite

• very strong or vigorous
  • "a hard left to the chin"
• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
  • "hard labor"
• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
  • "a hard drinker"
• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
  • "hard liquor"
• unfortunate or hard to bear
  • "had hard luck"
• dried out
  • "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

Adverb

• with effort or force or vigor
  • "the team played hard"
  • "worked hard all day"
  • "pressed hard on the lever"
  • "hit the ball hard"
  • "slammed the door hard"
• with firmness
  • "held hard to the railing"
• earnestly or intently
  • "thought hard about it"
  • "stared hard at the accused"
• causing great damage or hardship
  • "industries hit hard by the depression"
• slowly and with difficulty
  • "prejudices die hard"
• indulging excessively
• into a solid condition
  • "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
• very near or close in space or time
  • "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"
  • "they were hard on his heels"
  • "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
• with pain or distress or bitterness
  • "he took the rejection very hard"
• to the full extent possible; all the way
  • "hard alee"
  • "the ship went hard astern"
  • "swung the wheel hard left"

Adj

• Solid and firm.
• Solid and firm.
• Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
• Solid and firm.
• Strong.
• Solid and firm.
• Containing alcohol.
• Solid and firm.
• Very acidic or tannic.
• Solid and firm.
• High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
• Solid and firm.
• Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
• Solid and firm.
• Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
• Solid and firm.
• Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Tough, muscular, badass.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Excellent, impressive.
• Unquestionable; unequivocal.
• Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
• Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• Fortis.
• Plosive.
• Fortis.
• Unvoiced.
• Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
• Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
• Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
• In a physical form, not digital.
• Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
• Far, extreme.
• Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
• Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
• Hardcore.

Adv

• With much force or effort.
• With difficulty.
• So as to raise difficulties.
• Compactly.
• Near, close.

Noun

• A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
• Crack cocaine.
• Hard labor.

Verb

• To make hard, harden.

Examples

• a hard life
• a hard master;  a hard heart;  hard words;  a hard character
• a hard problem;  a hard question;  a hard topic
• a hard reboot or reset
• a hard site
• a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive
• At the intersection, bear hard left.
• At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
• hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda
• hard evidence;  a hard requirement
• Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.
• hard right, hard left
• hard X-rays
• He hit the puck hard up the ice.
• He thinks he's well hard.
• His degree was hard earned.
• I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.
• It was a hard decision to pass up a short word for a chance at a longer one.
• The couple were fucking each other hard.
• The lake had finally frozen hard.
• The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.
• The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.
• The recession hit them especially hard.
• The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.
• There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
• They worked hard all week.
• Think hard about your choices.
• This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
• This guy always has the hardest fits.
• This song goes hard.

Synonyms

arduous, backbreaking, concentrated, difficult, firmly, grueling, gruelling, heavily, heavy, intemperate, intemperately, knockout, laborious, operose, punishing, severe, severely, strong, surd, toilsome, tough, unvoiced, voiceless, adamantine, callous, challenging, cold, cold-eyed, concrete, confusing, dour, effortful, firm, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, granitic, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, hostile, humorless, icy, incontrovertible, indubitable, inflexible, insensitive, intolerable, iron-hearted, lithic, puzzling, resistant, rigid, rigorous, robust, rockhearted, rocky, solid, stern, stiff, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, stout, strict, sturdy, thistly, tricky, unambiguous, unbearable, unbending, uneath, unequivocal, unfriendly, unmoved, unquestionable, unsimple, unsympathetic, unyielding

Antonyms

easy, lightly, soft, voiced, alcohol-free, bearable, cushiony, flaccid, flexible, low-alcohol, moldable, non-alcoholic, simple, spongy, straightforward, tender, trite, yielding

Related Words

hard as nails, hardpeer, hardy

Anagrams of hard