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Hard
hɑːd
- solid, firm, and rigid; not easily broken, bent, or pierced
"the slate broke on the hard floor"
firm solid dense rigid stiff resistant unbreakable inflexible unpliable impenetrable unyielding solidified hardened compact compacted steely tough strong stony rocklike flinty close-packed compressed as hard as iron as hard as stone- (of a person) not showing any signs of weakness; tough
"only a handful are hard enough to join the SAS"
- (of prices of shares, commodities, etc.) high and stable; firm
- done with a great deal of force or strength
"a hard whack"
- requiring a great deal of endurance or effort
"airship-flying was pretty hard work"
arduous strenuous tiring fatiguing exhausting wearying back-breaking gruelling heavy laborious difficult puzzling perplexing baffling bewildering mystifying knotty thorny ticklish problematic enigmatic complicated complex intricate involved tangled insoluble unfathomable impenetrable incomprehensible unanswerable- putting a lot of energy into an activity
"he'd been a hard worker all his life"
- difficult to bear; causing suffering
"times were hard at the end of the war"
- difficult to understand or solve
"this is a really hard question"
- not showing sympathy or affection; strict
"he can be such a hard taskmaster"
- (of a season or the weather) severe
"it's been a long, hard winter"
- harsh or unpleasant to the senses
"the hard light of morning"
- (of wine) harsh or sharp to the taste, especially because of tannin
- (of information) reliable, especially because based on something true or substantiated
"hard facts about the underclass are maddeningly elusive"
- (of a subject of study) dealing with precise and verifiable facts
"efforts to turn psychology into hard science"
- denoting an extreme or dogmatic faction within a political party
"the hard left"
- (of science fiction) dealing with technological advances which do not contravene currently accepted scientific laws or principles
"a hard SF novel"
- strongly alcoholic; denoting a spirit rather than beer or wine
- (of a drug) potent and addictive
- (of radiation) highly penetrating
- (of pornography) highly obscene and explicit
- (of water) containing relatively high concentrations of dissolved calcium and magnesium salts, which make lathering difficult
"hard water requires much more soap, shampoo, or detergent than soft water"
- (of the penis, clitoris, or nipples) erect
- (of a man) having an erect penis
- (of a consonant) pronounced as a velar plosive (as c in cat, g in go)
- with a great deal of effort
"they work hard at school"
diligently industriously assiduously conscientiously sedulously busily intensely enthusiastically energetically earnestly persistently doggedly steadily indefatigably untiringly all out with application with perseverance with difficulty with effort after a struggle painfully arduously laboriously- with a great deal of force; violently
"it was raining hard"
- so as to be solid or firm
"the mortar has set hard"
- to the fullest extent possible
"put the wheel hard over to starboard"
hard as hard as possible for all one's worth vigorously with a vengeance to the utmost to the full to the limit all out