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Hard

adjective

(compar. harder; superl. hardest)

1.

Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure. Synonym: difficult. "Nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access" , "Difficult times" , "Why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

2.

Dispassionate. "A hard bargainer"

3.

Resisting weight or pressure.

4.

Very strong or vigorous. Synonyms: knockout, severe. "A hard left to the chin" , "A knockout punch" , "A severe blow"

5.

Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome. "A grueling campaign" , "Hard labor" , "Heavy work" , "Heavy going" , "Spent many laborious hours on the project" , "Set a punishing pace"

6.

Produced without vibration of the vocal cords. Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless.

7.

(of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source. Synonym: concentrated.

8.

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

9.

Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors. Synonyms: heavy, intemperate.

10.

Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content. Synonym: strong.

11.

Unfortunate or hard to bear. Synonym: tough. "A tough break"

12.

Dried out.

adverb

1.

With effort or force or vigor. "Worked hard all day" , "Pressed hard on the lever" , "Hit the ball hard" , "Slammed the door hard"

2.

With firmness. Synonym: firmly.

3.

Earnestly or intently. "Stared hard at the accused"

4.

Causing great damage or hardship. Synonym: severely. "She was severely affected by the bank's failure"

5.

Slowly and with difficulty.

6.

Indulging excessively. Synonyms: heavily, intemperately.

7.

Into a solid condition.

8.

Very near or close in space or time. "They were hard on his heels" , "A strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

9.

With pain or distress or bitterness.

10.

To the full extent possible; all the way. "The ship went hard astern" , "Swung the wheel hard left"

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"Hard" Quotes from Famous Books

... sentinels to guard the shore, he rode to the summit of the hill, where the men were hard at work, delving in silence with pick and spade. There were not sufficient implements for all, but when one was out of breath, another took his place, and before the first glimmer of dawn appeared, the trench ...

— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin

... when they descended. He came forward to meet his fiancee, and her heart throbbed fast and hard at the sight of him. But his manner was so strictly casual and impersonal that her agitation speedily passed, and by the time they were seated side by side at dinner—for the last time in their lives, as the Colonel jocosely remarked—she ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... soul alone! Let it go to God as best it may! It is entangled enough. It is hard enough for it to rise above the distractions which environ it. Let a man teach the rain how to fall, the clouds how to shape themselves and move their airy rounds, the seasons how to cherish and garner the universal ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various

... had it to make, she paused before it an instant. Fear seemed to be feeling, and a possible sense of the absurdity of her situation made for a slightly tremulous dignity as she said: "I do love it. Love it so much it is hard to tell just how much—or why." And then it was as if she shrank back, having uncovered too much. She looked as though she might be dreaming of the Court of the Uffizi, or Santa Maria Novella, but Katie surmised that that dreamy look was not failing to find out what Wayne was going to do with ...

— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

... required one who knew shorthand, who possessed a typewriting machine and a knowledge of French, to act as secretary to a nobleman. I was at that time twenty-three years old, and for two years had been trying to earn my living in London through the typing of manuscript. But I was making a hard struggle of it, so I applied for this position and got it. There are in the library of Rantremly Castle many documents relating to the Stuart exile in France. His lordship wished these documents sorted ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

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