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adj. Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated.

adj. Physically toughened; rugged.

adj. Mentally toughened; strong-minded.

adj. Requiring great effort or endurance: a hard assignment.

adj. Performed with or marked by great diligence or energy: a project that required years of hard work.

adj. Difficult to resolve, accomplish, or finish: That was a hard question.

adj. Difficult to understand or impart: Physics was the hardest of my courses. Thermodynamics is a hard course to teach.

adj. Intense in force or degree: a hard blow.

adj. Inclement: a long, hard winter.

adj. Stern or strict in nature or comportment: a hard taskmaster.

adj. Resistant to persuasion or appeal; obdurate.

adj. Making few concessions: drives a hard bargain.

adj. Difficult to endure: a hard life.

adj. Oppressive or unjust in nature or effect: restrictions that were hard on welfare applicants.

adj. Lacking compassion or sympathy; callous.

adj. Harsh or severe in effect or intention: said some hard things that I won't forget.

adj. Bitter; resentful: No hard feelings, I hope.

adj. Causing damage or premature wear: Snow and ice are hard on a car's finish.

adj. Bad; adverse: hard luck.

adj. Proceeding or performing with force, vigor, or persistence; assiduous: a hard worker.

adj. Real and unassailable: hard evidence.

adj. Definite; firm: a hard commitment.

adj. Close; penetrating: We need to take a hard look at the situation.

adj. Free from illusion or bias; practical: brought some hard common sense to the discussion.

adj. Using or based on data that are readily quantified or verified: the hard sciences.

adj. Marked by sharp outline or definition; stark.

adj. Lacking in delicacy, shading, or nuance.

adj. Hard-core.

adj. Being a turn in a specific direction at an angle more acute than other possible routes.

adj. Metallic, as opposed to paper. Used of currency.

adj. Backed by bullion rather than by credit. Used of currency.

adj. High and stable. Used of prices.

adj. Durable; lasting: hard merchandise.

adj. Written or printed rather than stored in electronic media: sent the information by hard mail.

adj. Erect; tumid. Used of a penis.

adj. Having high alcoholic content; intoxicating: hard liquor.

adj. Rendered alcoholic by fermentation; fermented: hard cider.

adj. Containing dissolved salts that interfere with the lathering action of soap. Used of water.

adj. Linguistics Velar, as in c in cake or g in log, as opposed to palatal or soft.

adj. Physics Of relatively high energy; penetrating: hard x-rays.

adj. High in gluten content: hard wheat.

adj. Chemistry Resistant to biodegradation: a hard detergent.

adj. Physically addictive. Used of certain illegal drugs, such as heroin.

adj. Resistant to blast, heat, or radiation. Used especially of nuclear weapons.

ad. With strenuous effort; intently: worked hard all day; stared hard at the accused criminal.

ad. With great force, vigor, or energy: pressed hard on the lever.

ad. In such a way as to cause great damage or hardship: industrial cities hit hard by unemployment.

ad. With great distress, grief, or bitterness: took the divorce hard.

ad. Firmly; securely: held hard to the railing.

ad. Toward or into a solid condition: concrete that sets hard within a day.

ad. Near in space or time; close: The factory stands hard by the railroad tracks.

ad. Nautical Completely; fully: hard alee.

idiom. hard and fast Defined, fixed, and invariable: hard and fast rules.

idiom. hard of hearing Having a partial loss of hearing.

idiom. hard of hearing One who has a partial loss of hearing.

idiom. hard put Undergoing great difficulty: Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.

idiom. hard up Informal In need; poor.

adj. Resistant to pressure.

adj. Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand

adj. Demanding a lot of effort to endure.

adj. severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.

adj. Unquestionable.

adj. Of drink, strong.

adj. Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.

adj. Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds.

adj. Sexually aroused.

adj. Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.

adj. Of a ferromagnetic material, having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft)

ad. With much force or effort.

ad. With difficulty.

ad. Compactly.

ad. Near, close.

n. A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water

adj. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft

adj. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved.

adj. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous

adj. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

adj. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping

adj. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel

adj. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling.

adj. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors.

adj. 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.

adj. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh.

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adj. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

adj. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

ad. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

ad. With difficulty.

ad. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

ad. So as to raise difficulties.

ad. With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; ; hence, rapidly; nimbly.

ad. Close or near.

v. To harden; to make hard.

n. A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Solid and firm to the touch; firm in substance and texture, so as not to be readily altered in shape, penetrated, or divided; so constituted as to resist compressing, penetrating, dividing, or abrading action: opposed to soft.

Not loose, or not easily loosened; firmly formed; tight; fast: as, a hard knot; hence, binding; obligatory: as, a hard and fast promise.

Hardy; tough; enduring; resistant; sound.

Difficult.

Difficult to overcome; strong; powerful.

Difficult of solution, comprehension, decision, etc.; difficult to master, understand, determine, etc.; perplexing: as, a hard question or problem; a hard language to study; hard words (that is, big words, difficult to pronounce).

Difficult to accomplish or effect; necessitating or involving considerable effort or labor; arduous; laborious; fatiguing: as, hard work; a hard task.

Difficult to endure or bear; oppressive; harsh; cruel: as, a hard fate; a hard blow; hard treatment; a hard case.

Carried on, executed, or accomplished with great exertion or energy: as, a hard fight; a hard struggle; hard labor or study.

Close, persevering, or unremitting in application or effort; earnest; industrious: hard student.

Strenuous; violent; vehement: as, a hard rain; a hard trot or run; hard drinking.

Intellectually sturdy; practical; not visionary.

Severe in action or effect; rigorous: as, a hard frost; a hard winter.

Harsh.

Harsh in style, outline, or execution; stiff; conventional; unnatural. A picture is said to be hard when the lights and shades are too strongly marked and too close to each other.

Of a harsh nature or character; obdurate; depraved: as, a hard heart; hence, merciless; characterized by the absence of kindliness or affection; unfeeling; unfriendly; harsh in manner: as, a hard look; to cherish hard feelings toward one.

Austere; exacting; oppressive: as, to be hard upon one; a hard master.

Strict in money matters; close in dealing; grasping; avaricious.

Vexatious; galling: as, hard words or dealings; to call one hard names.

Wicked; bad; reprobate; profane: as, a hard character; a hard case.

Coarse, unpalatable, or scanty: as, hard fare.

Having a refractory quality; resistant in some use or application: said of fluids affected by or treated with lime, etc.: as, hard water. See hardness, 2

Strong; spirituous; intoxicating; fermented: as, hard liquors; hard drinks; hard cider.

In silk-manuf., retaining the natural gum: distinguished from soft: said of silk.

In phonetics: Uttered without sonant quality; surd or breathed, as distinguished from sonant or voiced.

Having a guttural as distinguished from a sibilant sound: said of c and g as in corn and get, as distinguished from c and g as in cite and gee.

4 . Perplexing, puzzling, knotty.

4 and Difficult, etc. See arduous.

Severe, Harsh, etc. (see austere); insensible, callous, obdurate, inflexible.

n. Something that is hard, in distinction from something similar or related that is soft; especially, the hard part of a thing that is partly soft, as the shell or rind.

n. A small marble.

n. A firm, solid path or way; a paved street or roadway; a gravelly passage, as over a fen or marsh.

n. A kind of pier or landing-place for boats on a river.

n. [capitalized] In United States history: A member of the more conservative of the two factions into which, in 1852 and the years immediately following, the Democratic party in the State of New York was divided, corresponding in general to the earlier faction called Hunkers. The extreme members were called the Adamantine Hards. Originally called Hard-shells.

n. In Missouri, about 1850, one of the supporters of Senator Benton: so called from their advocacy of “hard money,” but differing from the Softs mainly in that they were opposed to secession doctrines and to the nationalization of slavery.

n. plural A mixture of alum and salt used by bakers to whiten bread.

With force, effort, or energy; with urgency; forcibly; vehemently; vigorously; energetically: as, to work hard for a living; to run hard; to hold hard; it rains hard.

Securely; firmly; tightly; so as to be fast.

With difficulty.

Disagreeably; unpleasantly; grievously; vexatiously; gallingly.

So as to be difficult.

Roughly; heavily.

Close; near.

Fully; closely; to the full extent: especially in nautical use, in the commands for putting the helm hard alee, hard aport, hard up, etc.— that is, as far as it will go in the direction indicated.

So as to be hard in consistence: chiefly in composition: as, hard-burned, hard-baked, hard-boiled.

In want of money; needy; without resources: used absolutely.

Ill-provided with: followed by for: as, hard up for amusement. Nautical, pushed close up or as far as possible: said of the helm when put completely over to one side so as to turn the ship's head away from the wind.

To make hard; harden.

In vocalization, of a tone made with a rigid attitude of the vocal organs, so as to be wanting in mellowness and ympathy.

adj. being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

ad. to the full extent possible; all the way

adj. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

adj. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

ad. with firmness

adj. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

ad. causing great damage or hardship

adj. dispassionate

adj. produced without vibration of the vocal cords

ad. earnestly or intently

ad. slowly and with difficulty

ad. very near or close in space or time

adj. unfortunate or hard to bear

ad. indulging excessively

adj. very strong or vigorous

ad. into a solid condition

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

adj. dried out

ad. with effort or force or vigor

adj. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

ad. with pain or distress or bitterness

adj. resisting weight or pressure

"The pressure squeezes and pulls at my chest so hard, so hard… so very hard, it is like you can feel the muscle fibers tearing and popping as my heart races and slows erratically."

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