'Hard' definitions:
Definition of 'hard'
From: WordNet
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"
adverb
With firmness; "held hard to the railing" [syn: hard, firmly]
adverb
Earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
adverb
Causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" [syn: hard, severely]
adverb
Slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
adverb
adverb
Into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
adverb
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"
adverb
With pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
adverb
To the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
adjective
Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: difficult, hard] [ant: easy]
adjective
Dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; [ant: soft]
adjective
Resisting weight or pressure [ant: soft]
adjective
Very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: hard, knockout, severe]
adjective
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
adjective
Produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant, voiced]
adjective
(of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source [syn: hard, concentrated] [ant: diffuse, diffused, soft]
adjective
(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" [ant: soft]
adjective
Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn: intemperate, hard, heavy]
adjective
Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: hard, strong]
adjective
Unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" [syn: hard, tough]
adjective
Dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
Definition of 'Hard'
From: GCIDE
- Hard \Hard\ (h[aum]rd), a. [Compar. Harder (-[~e]r); superl. Hardest.] [OE. hard, heard, AS. heard; akin to OS. & D. hard, G. hart, OHG. herti, harti, Icel. har[eth]r, Dan. haard, Sw. h[*a]rd, Goth. hardus, Gr. kraty`s strong, ka`rtos, kra`tos, strength, and also to E. -ard, as in coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf. Skr. kratu strength, k[.r] to do, make. Cf. Hardy.]
- 1. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. [1913 Webster]
- The hard causes they brought unto Moses. --Ex. xviii. 26. [1913 Webster]
- In which are some things hard to be understood. --2 Peter iii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful. [1913 Webster]
- The stag was too hard for the horse. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- A power which will be always too hard for them. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. [1913 Webster]
- I never could drive a hard bargain. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. [1913 Webster]
- Figures harder than even the marble itself. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Pron.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Painting) (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. (b) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. [1913 Webster]
- Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc.
- Hard clam, or Hard-shelled clam (Zool.), the quahog.
- Hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from {bituminous coal} (soft coal).
- Hard and fast. (Naut.) See under Fast.
- Hard finish (Arch.), a smooth finishing coat of hard fine plaster applied to the surface of rough plastering.
- Hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions.
- Hard money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money.
- Hard oyster (Zool.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.]
- Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan.
- Hard rubber. See under Rubber.
- Hard solder. See under Solder.
- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.
- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.
- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm muscles; -- said of race horses.
- Syn: Solid; arduous; powerful; trying; unyielding; stubborn; stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh; difficult; severe; obdurate; rigid. See Solid, and Arduous. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hard'
From: GCIDE
- Hard \Hard\, adv. [OE. harde, AS. hearde.]
- 1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly. [1913 Webster]
- And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. So as to raise difficulties. "The question is hard set." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 5. With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; nimbly; as, to run hard. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Close or near. [1913 Webster]
- Whose house joined hard to the synagogue. --Acts xviii. 7. [1913 Webster]
- Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes." --Milton.
- Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.]
- Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Note: Hard in nautical language is often joined to words of command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm should be put, in the direction indicated, to the extreme limit, as, Hard aport! Hard astarboard! Hard alee! Hard aweather! Hard up! Hard is also often used in composition with a participle; as, hard-baked; hard-earned; hard-featured; hard-working; hard-won. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hard'
From: GCIDE
- Hard \Hard\ (h[aum]rd), v. t. To harden; to make hard. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hard'
From: GCIDE
- Hard \Hard\, n. A ford or passage across a river or swamp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hard'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about,
- absolute,
- abstruse,
- accented,
- acerb,
- acerbic,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actively,
- acute,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- addictive,
- adverse,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- agonizingly,
- alcoholic,
- all but,
- almost,
- along toward,
- alveolar,
- amaroidal,
- anesthetic,
- angry,
- antagonistic,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- approximately,
- ardent,
- ardently,
- arduous,
- arduously,
- around,
- articulated,
- assiduous,
- assiduously,
- assimilated,
- astringent,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- atrocious,
- austere,
- avid,
- back,
- backbreaking,
- bad,
- badly,
- baffling,
- bankrupt,
- bare,
- barytone,
- bec et ongles,
- beefy,
- beyond one,
- bilabial,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- bleak,
- bloodless,
- blunt,
- bony,
- bothersome,
- bouncing,
- bowelless,
- brazen,
- broad,
- broke,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bulky,
- burdensome,
- businesslike,
- busted,
- cacuminal,
- calamitous,
- calculating,
- callous,
- calloused,
- carefully,
- cartilaginous,
- case-hardened,
- cast-iron,
- caustic,
- cement,
- cemental,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- chewy,
- clear,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- coarse,
- cohesive,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- compact,
- compacted,
- complex,
- complicated,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- conditioning,
- conflicting,
- congested,
- conscienceless,
- conscientious,
- conscientiously,
- consolidated,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- contrary,
- cool,
- coriaceous,
- corneous,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crabbed,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- critical,
- crowded,
- cruel,
- dark,
- deep,
- deeply,
- definite,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- dense,
- dental,
- despotic,
- determinedly,
- detrimental,
- devastating,
- devoted,
- devotedly,
- dictatorial,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- diligently,
- disastrous,
- dispassionate,
- dissimilated,
- distinct,
- distressing,
- distressingly,
- dog-eat-dog,
- dogged,
- doggedly,
- dorsal,
- doughty,
- dour,
- down-to-earth,
- dull,
- durable,
- dure,
- dynamically,
- eager,
- eagerly,
- earnestly,
- effortful,
- effortfully,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- energetically,
- enigmatic,
- exacting,
- excruciating,
- exhausting,
- factual,
- fast by,
- fatiguing,
- fervent,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- flat,
- flinthearted,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- forceful,
- forcefully,
- forcible,
- forcibly,
- forcy,
- formidable,
- front,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- fundamentalist,
- garbled,
- genuine,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- gluey,
- gnawing,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- grave,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grinding,
- griping,
- gristly,
- gutsy,
- guttural,
- gutty,
- habit-forming,
- habituating,
- hairy,
- hale,
- hammer and tongs,
- hard as nails,
- hard by,
- hard of heart,
- hard to understand,
- hard up,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-core,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hard-nosed,
- hard-set,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- hardhearted,
- hardworking,
- hardy,
- harmful,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- harshly,
- heart and soul,
- heartily,
- heartless,
- hearty,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- Herculean,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hidebound,
- high,
- horny,
- hostile,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- husky,
- ill,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impassible,
- impecunious,
- impenetrable,
- impenitent,
- impermeable,
- impervious,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- impoverished,
- impregnable,
- in opposition,
- in spitting distance,
- in the red,
- inclement,
- incomprehensible,
- incontestable,
- incontrovertible,
- indefatigable,
- indefatigably,
- indigent,
- indisputable,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- industrious,
- industriously,
- inelastic,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- inhuman,
- inimical,
- inscrutable,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- insolent,
- insoluble,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intensely,
- intent,
- intently,
- intonated,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- intricate,
- inured,
- involved,
- irksome,
- iron,
- iron-hard,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- ironlike,
- irreconcilable,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- keen,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- labored,
- laborious,
- laboriously,
- lapideous,
- lasting,
- lateral,
- lax,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- lost to shame,
- low,
- lusty,
- magisterial,
- manfully,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- massive,
- matter-of-fact,
- mean,
- merciless,
- methodical,
- mid,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- miserable,
- monophthongal,
- most,
- much,
- muscle-bound,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nervy,
- never idle,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- no picnic,
- nonporous,
- not easy,
- not far,
- obdurate,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- obstinate,
- occlusive,
- onerous,
- only a step,
- open,
- operose,
- operosely,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppressive,
- orthodox,
- osseous,
- overtechnical,
- oxytone,
- pachydermatous,
- packed,
- painful,
- painfully,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- paroxysmal,
- penetrating,
- penniless,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- perseveringly,
- persistent,
- persistently,
- petrified,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- Philistine,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- physiologically addictive,
- piercing,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- pitiless,
- plain,
- poignant,
- poor,
- positive,
- posttonic,
- potent,
- poverty-stricken,
- powerful,
- practical,
- practically,
- pragmatic,
- procrustean,
- profound,
- proof against,
- psychologically addictive,
- puissant,
- pungent,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puzzling,
- racking,
- real,
- realistic,
- red-blooded,
- relentless,
- relentlessly,
- remorseless,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- retroflex,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- ropy,
- rough,
- rounded,
- rugged,
- ruthless,
- savage,
- scabrous,
- scrambled,
- searching,
- seared,
- sedulous,
- sedulously,
- semivowel,
- serious,
- serried,
- set,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- severely,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sinewy,
- sinister,
- slavish,
- sleepless,
- sober,
- soft,
- solid,
- solidified,
- sonant,
- sound,
- sour,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spiny,
- spiritedly,
- spirituous,
- stabbing,
- stable,
- stalwart,
- stark,
- steadfastly,
- steady,
- steeled against,
- steellike,
- steely,
- steep,
- stern,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stinging,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stonyhearted,
- stopped,
- stout,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- straightlaced,
- straining,
- straitlaced,
- strapping,
- strenuous,
- strenuously,
- stressed,
- stressful,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- stubborn,
- studiously,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- surd,
- sure-enough,
- syllabic,
- systematic,
- tangled,
- tart,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- terrible,
- the hard way,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thick-skinned,
- thickset,
- thorny,
- throaty,
- ticklish,
- tireless,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- toilsomely,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- tooth and nail,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- twangy,
- tyrannical,
- unabject,
- unaccented,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unavoidable,
- unbending,
- unblushing,
- unchangeable,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- uncompromising,
- uncontrite,
- undeniable,
- unemotional,
- unfalteringly,
- unfavorable,
- unfeeling,
- unflagging,
- unforgiving,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- ungiving,
- unidealistic,
- unkind,
- unmelted,
- unmerciful,
- unmoved,
- unnatural,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unpleasant,
- unquestionable,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unremorseful,
- unrepentant,
- unrepenting,
- unresponsive,
- unrounded,
- unsentimental,
- unsleeping,
- unsoftened,
- unsolvable,
- unsparing,
- unstressed,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- untiring,
- untiringly,
- untouched,
- untoward,
- unvarnished,
- unwearied,
- unyielding,
- uphill,
- urgently,
- vehement,
- velar,
- verifiable,
- vigorous,
- vigorously,
- vinous,
- violently,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-defined,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-made,
- well-nigh,
- wicked,
- wide,
- winy,
- wiry,
- with a kick,
- with a will,
- with effort,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach,
- without mercy,
- wretched,
- zealous,
- zealously
Words containing 'Hard'
- Hard by,
- Hard up,
- Harding,
- Hardly,
- Hardness,
- Hards,
- hardly a,
- A hard case,
- Hard and fast,
- Hard cancer,
- Hard case,
- Hard clam,
- Hard coal,
- Hard finish,
- Hard grass,
- Hard lines,
- Hard money,
- Hard multum,
- Hard oyster,
- Hard pan,
- Hard pushed,
- Hard rubber,
- Hard run,
- Hard soap,
- Hard solder,
- Hard steel,
- Hard water,
- Hard wood,
- Harding County,
- Harding, AK,
- Harding, MN,
- Harding, NM,
- Harding, SD,
- Heart hardness,
- In hard condition,
- To go hard with,
- To have hard measure,
- To lie hard,
- To ride hard,
- To run hard,
- die hard,
- hard beech,
- hard candy,
- hard cash,
- hard chancre,
- hard cheese,
- hard cider,
- hard copy,
- hard core,
- hard currency,
- hard disc,
- hard disk,
- hard drink,
- hard drive,
- hard drug,
- hard earned,
- hard feelings,
- hard fern,
- hard fought,
- hard goods,
- hard hat,
- hard job,
- hard knocks,
- hard labor,
- hard lead,
- hard life,
- hard line,
- hard liquor,
- hard news,
- hard palate,
- hard pressed,
- hard put,
- hard right,
- hard rock,
- hard roe,
- hard roll,
- hard rush,
- hard sauce,
- hard sell,
- hard shoulder,
- hard stuff,
- hard surface,
- hard tick,
- hard time,
- hard times,
- hard to please,
- hard wheat,
- hard wired,
- hard worker,
- hard-on,
- harding grass,
- hardly ever,
- president harding,
- strike hard,
- warren harding,
- Hard-favored,
- Hard-favoredness,
- Hard-featured,
- Hard-fisted,
- Hard-handed,
- Hard-headedness,
- Hard-hearted,
- Hard-heartedness,
- Hard-labored,
- Hard-mouthed,
- Hard-shell,
- Hard-tack,
- Hard-visaged,
- Harding County, NM,
- Harding County, SD,
- Helm hard alee,
- Helm hard aport,
- Helm hard astarboard,
- Ni-hard,
- To bear one hard,
- charles hard townes,
- die-hard,
- hard-and-fast,
- hard-baked,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-bound,
- hard-core,
- hard-fought,
- hard-headed,
- hard-hitting,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hard-of-hearing,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-shelled,
- hard-surfaced,
- hard-to-please,
- hard-wired,
- hard-won,
- warren gamaliel harding,
- Hard-shelled clam,
- Harding-Birch Lakes,
- Ni-hard iron,
- Scirrhous cancer or Hard cancer,
- hard-boiled egg,
- hard-cooked egg,
- hard-shell clam,
- hard-shell crab,
- hard-skinned puffball,
- Harding-Birch Lakes, AK,
- with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil,
- arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome