'Hard up' definitions:
Definition of 'hard up'
From: WordNet
adjective
Not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched]
Definition of 'Hard up'
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]
Synonyms of 'hard up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- badly off,
- desperate,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- hard pressed,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in Queer Street,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- land-poor,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- sorely pressed,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- up against it
Words containing 'Hard up'
- Hard,
- Hard by,
- 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