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related words >
adamantness
,
dourness
,
firmness
,
flintiness
,
grimness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
immovability
,
immutability
,
implacability
,
impliability
,
inelasticity
,
inexorability
,
inflexibility
,
intransigeance
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
irreconcilability
,
obduracy
,
relentlessness
,
rigidity
,
rigorism
,
steeliness
,
sternness
,
stiff temper
,
stiffness
,
toughness
,
unalterability
,
unbendingness
,
unchangeability
,
uncompromisingness
,
ungivingness
,
unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
inflexibility
collapse
the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
a lack of physical flexibility
related words >
act of God
,
adamantness
,
certainty
,
concentration
,
constancy
,
dourness
,
fate
,
fatefulness
,
firmness
,
firmness of mind
,
fixedness
,
flintiness
,
force majeure
,
fundamentalism
,
grimness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
hardness
,
immobility
,
immobilization
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
immutability
,
implacability
,
impliability
,
indefeasibility
,
inductility
,
inelasticity
,
ineluctability
,
inertia
,
inescapableness
,
inevasibleness
,
inevitability
,
inevitable accident
,
inevitableness
,
inexorability
,
inextensibility
,
inextricability
,
intractability
,
intransigeance
,
intransigence
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
irreconcilability
,
irremovability
,
irresilience
,
irresiliency
,
irrevocability
,
loyalty
,
necessity
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
obstinacy
,
orthodoxy
,
precisianism
,
predetermination
,
purism
,
puritanism
,
relentlessness
,
rigidity
,
rigidness
,
rigor
,
rigorism
,
rigorousness
,
settledness
,
solidity
,
staunchness
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
steeliness
,
sternness
,
stiff temper
,
stiffness
,
stubbornness
,
sureness
,
toughness
,
trueness
,
unalterability
,
unavoidable casualty
,
unavoidableness
,
unbendingness
,
unchangeability
,
uncompromisingness
,
uncontrollability
,
undeflectability
,
ungivingness
,
unlimberness
,
unmalleability
,
unmovability
,
unpliability
,
unpreventability
,
unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
,
vis inertiae
,
vis major
rigidity
collapse
the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
related words >
abidingness
,
absoluteness
,
accuracy
,
adamantness
,
attention to fact
,
care for truth
,
changelessness
,
concentration
,
constancy
,
correctness
,
delicacy
,
dourness
,
durability
,
durableness
,
duration
,
endurance
,
exactitude
,
exactness
,
faithfulness
,
faultlessness
,
fidelity
,
fineness
,
firmness
,
firmness of mind
,
fixedness
,
flawlessness
,
flintiness
,
frozenness
,
fundamentalism
,
grimness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
hardening
,
hardness
,
immobility
,
immobilization
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
immutability
,
implacability
,
impliability
,
inelasticity
,
inertia
,
inexorability
,
inextricability
,
inflexibility
,
intransigeance
,
intransigence
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
invariability
,
invariableness
,
inveteracy
,
irreconcilability
,
irremovability
,
lastingness
,
literalism
,
literality
,
literalness
,
long standing
,
loyalty
,
mathematical precision
,
meticulousness
,
niceness
,
nicety
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
obstinacy
,
orthodoxy
,
perfection
,
permanence
,
permanency
,
perpetualness
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
preciseness
,
precisianism
,
precision
,
purism
,
puritanism
,
quiescence
,
refinement
,
relentlessness
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
right
,
rightness
,
rigidness
,
rigor
,
rigorism
,
rigorousness
,
settledness
,
severity
,
solidity
,
stability
,
standing
,
starchiness
,
stasis
,
staunchness
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
steeliness
,
sternness
,
stiff temper
,
stiffness
,
strictness
,
stubbornness
,
subtlety
,
tautness
,
tenseness
,
tension
,
tensity
,
textualism
,
the letter
,
tightness
,
torpor
,
toughness
,
trueness
,
unalterability
,
unbendingness
,
unchangeability
,
unchangingness
,
uncompromisingness
,
ungivingness
,
unmovability
,
unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
,
vis inertiae
stiffness
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firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"
the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"
the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
related words >
adamantness
,
aridity
,
barrenness
,
bloodlessness
,
buckram
,
ceremonial
,
ceremoniousness
,
ceremony
,
characterlessness
,
cohesiveness
,
colorlessness
,
costliness
,
deadness
,
dearness
,
dignity
,
dismalness
,
dourness
,
dragginess
,
dreariness
,
dryness
,
dullness
,
durability
,
dustiness
,
effeteness
,
emptiness
,
etiolation
,
extrinsicality
,
firmness
,
flatness
,
flintiness
,
form
,
formality
,
formalization
,
fundamentalism
,
gravity
,
great cost
,
grimness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
hardiness
,
hardness
,
heaviness
,
highness
,
hollowness
,
immovability
,
immutability
,
impliability
,
inanity
,
inelasticity
,
inexcitability
,
inexorability
,
inflexibility
,
infrangibility
,
insipidity
,
insipidness
,
intransigeance
,
intransigence
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
irreconcilability
,
jejunity
,
lastingness
,
leadenness
,
leatherlikeness
,
lifelessness
,
lowness of spirit
,
luxuriousness
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
obstinacy
,
orthodoxy
,
paleness
,
pallor
,
pointlessness
,
pokiness
,
pomp
,
pomposity
,
ponderousness
,
precisianism
,
primness
,
purism
,
puritanism
,
relentlessness
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
resistance
,
richness
,
rigidity
,
rigidness
,
rigor
,
rigorism
,
rigorousness
,
ritual
,
rituality
,
ropiness
,
slowness
,
solemnity
,
spiritlessness
,
stamina
,
starchiness
,
steeliness
,
steepness
,
sterility
,
sternness
,
stiff temper
,
stiltedness
,
stodginess
,
strength
,
stringiness
,
stubbornness
,
stuffiness
,
stylization
,
sumptuousness
,
superficiality
,
tastelessness
,
tautness
,
tediousness
,
tenacity
,
tenseness
,
tension
,
tensity
,
tightness
,
toughness
,
unalterability
,
unbendingness
,
unbreakability
,
unbreakableness
,
unchangeability
,
uncompromisingness
,
ungivingness
,
uninterestingness
,
unliveliness
,
unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
,
vapidity
,
vapidness
,
viscidity
,
vitality
,
weight
,
woodenness
hard pressed
collapse
related words >
at the double
,
crowded
,
desperate
,
double-quick
,
double-time
,
hard up
,
hard-pressed
,
hard-pushed
,
hard-run
,
hurried
,
in desperate straits
,
in extremis
,
in extremities
,
on the double
,
pinched
,
pressed
,
pressed for time
,
pushed
,
rushed
,
sorely pressed
,
straitened
,
up against it
corneous
collapse
made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
related words >
bony
,
cement
,
cemental
,
concrete
,
dense
,
diamondlike
,
dure
,
flintlike
,
flinty
,
granitelike
,
granitic
,
hard
,
hard as nails
,
hardhearted
,
horny
,
iron-hard
,
ironlike
,
lapideous
,
lithoid
,
lithoidal
,
marble
,
marblelike
,
obdurate
,
osseous
,
resistant
,
resistive
,
rocklike
,
rocky
,
solid
,
steellike
,
steely
,
stonelike
,
stony
,
tough
hard job
collapse
related words >
Augean task
,
Herculean task
,
arduousness
,
backbreaker
,
backbreaking work
,
ballbuster
,
bitch
,
burdensomeness
,
chore
,
dead lift
,
effortfulness
,
handful
,
hard labor
,
hard pull
,
hard work
,
heavy sledding
,
laboriousness
,
large order
,
man-sized job
,
onerousness
,
oppressiveness
,
rough go
,
strenuousness
,
tall order
,
toilsomeness
,
tough job
,
tough proposition
,
troublesomeness
,
uphill work
,
warm work
relentlessness
collapse
mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"
related words >
act of God
,
adamantness
,
application
,
ardor
,
assiduity
,
assiduousness
,
bulldog tenacity
,
certainty
,
commitment
,
concentration
,
constancy
,
cruelty
,
decidedness
,
decision
,
decisiveness
,
dedication
,
definiteness
,
determinateness
,
determination
,
determinedness
,
devotion
,
diligence
,
dogged perseverance
,
doggedness
,
dourness
,
earnestness
,
endurance
,
energeticalness
,
energy
,
engrossment
,
fate
,
fatefulness
,
fervor
,
fidelity
,
firmness
,
flintiness
,
force majeure
,
fundamentalism
,
grimness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
hardness
,
harshness
,
heartlessness
,
immovability
,
immutability
,
implacability
,
impliability
,
inclemency
,
indefatigability
,
indefeasibility
,
industriousness
,
industry
,
inelasticity
,
ineluctability
,
inescapableness
,
inevasibleness
,
inevitability
,
inevitable accident
,
inevitableness
,
inexorability
,
inexorableness
,
inflexibility
,
insistence
,
insistency
,
intransigeance
,
intransigence
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
irreconcilability
,
irrevocability
,
laboriousness
,
loyalty
,
mercilessness
,
necessity
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
obstinacy
,
orthodoxy
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
permanence
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
pertinaciousness
,
pertinacity
,
pitilessness
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
precisianism
,
predetermination
,
preoccupation
,
purism
,
puritanism
,
purpose
,
purposefulness
,
remorselessness
,
resoluteness
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
resolvedness
,
rigidity
,
rigidness
,
rigor
,
rigorism
,
rigorousness
,
ruthlessness
,
sedulity
,
sedulousness
,
self-will
,
seriousness
,
short shrift
,
sincerity
,
single-mindedness
,
singleness of purpose
,
slogging
,
stability
,
stamina
,
staying power
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
steeliness
,
sternness
,
stick-to-itiveness
,
stiff temper
,
stiffness
,
strenuousness
,
stubbornness
,
sureness
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
tender mercies
,
tirelessness
,
total commitment
,
toughness
,
unalterability
,
unavoidable casualty
,
unavoidableness
,
unbendingness
,
unchangeability
,
uncompassionateness
,
uncompromisingness
,
uncontrollability
,
undeflectability
,
unfeelingness
,
unforgivingness
,
ungivingness
,
unmercifulness
,
unpreventability
,
unrelentingness
,
unremittingness
,
unremorsefulness
,
unsparingness
,
unswerving attention
,
unsympatheticness
,
unyieldingness
,
vehemence
,
vis major
,
will
,
zealousness
overburden
collapse
the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
burden with too much work or responsibility
load with excessive weight
related words >
bear hard upon
,
burden
,
burthen
,
charge
,
choke
,
congest
,
cram
,
crowd
,
cumber
,
drench
,
encumber
,
freight
,
glut
,
gluttonize
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
gorge
,
hamper
,
handicap
,
jam
,
jam-pack
,
lade
,
lie on
,
load
,
oppress
,
overcharge
,
overfeed
,
overfill
,
overlade
,
overload
,
overstuff
,
overtax
,
overweigh
,
overweight
,
pack
,
press hard upon
,
rest hard upon
,
saddle
,
satiate
,
saturate
,
soak
,
stuff
,
supercharge
,
supersaturate
,
surcharge
,
surfeit
,
tax
,
try one
,
weigh down
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh on
,
weigh upon
hard life
collapse
related words >
adverse circumstances
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
aggravation
,
annoyance
,
blight
,
bummer
,
care
,
cross
,
curse
,
difficulties
,
difficulty
,
downer
,
hard knocks
,
hard lot
,
hardcase
,
hardship
,
irritation
,
plight
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
rigor
,
sea of troubles
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
hard labor
collapse
related words >
arduousness
,
backbreaking work
,
burdensomeness
,
confinement
,
dismemberment
,
effortfulness
,
estrapade
,
galleys
,
hard job
,
hard work
,
impalement
,
imprisonment
,
incarceration
,
jailing
,
keelhauling
,
laboriousness
,
martyrdom
,
onerousness
,
oppressiveness
,
penal servitude
,
picketing
,
railriding
,
rock pile
,
strappado
,
strenuousness
,
tar-and-feathering
,
the gantlet
,
toilsomeness
,
torment
,
torture
,
troublesomeness
,
uphill work
,
warm work
marblelike
collapse
related words >
adamant
,
adamantine
,
bony
,
cement
,
cemental
,
concrete
,
corneous
,
dense
,
diamondlike
,
dure
,
flintlike
,
flinty
,
granitelike
,
granitic
,
hard
,
hard as nails
,
hardhearted
,
horny
,
iron-hard
,
ironlike
,
lapideous
,
lithic
,
lithoid
,
lithoidal
,
marble
,
obdurate
,
osseous
,
petrified
,
petrogenic
,
resistant
,
resistive
,
rock
,
rocklike
,
rocky
,
slaty
,
solid
,
steellike
,
steely
,
stone
,
stonelike
,
stony
,
tough
jawbreaking
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
brutal
,
complex
,
critical
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
exacting
,
formidable
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
intricate
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
laborious
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
not easy
,
operose
,
polysyllabic
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
sesquipedal
,
sesquipedalian
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strenuous
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
tricky
,
uphill
,
wicked
exertion
collapse
related words >
action
,
active use
,
activity
,
appliance
,
application
,
assiduity
,
assiduousness
,
consumption
,
determination
,
diligence
,
drive
,
effort
,
elbow grease
,
employ
,
employment
,
endeavor
,
exercise
,
exercising
,
good use
,
hard pull
,
hard usage
,
hard use
,
ill use
,
industry
,
misuse
,
operation
,
pains
,
push
,
resolution
,
rough usage
,
sedulity
,
sedulousness
,
strain
,
striving
,
struggle
,
toil
,
trouble
,
usage
,
use
,
using up
,
while
,
work
,
wrong use
hardhearted
collapse
devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
related words >
Philistine
,
brazen
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
cold
,
cold of heart
,
coldblooded
,
coldhearted
,
conscienceless
,
flinthearted
,
flinty
,
hard
,
hard of heart
,
hard-boiled
,
hardened
,
heartless
,
impervious
,
indurated
,
insensitive
,
inured
,
lost to shame
,
obdurate
,
pachydermatous
,
proof against
,
seared
,
shameless
,
steeled against
,
steely
,
stony
,
stonyhearted
,
thick-skinned
,
unblushing
,
uncompassionate
,
unemotional
,
unfeeling
,
unmerciful
,
unnatural
,
unresponsive
,
unsympathetic
on duty
collapse
related words >
at it
,
at work
,
busy
,
employed
,
engaged
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
in harness
,
occupied
,
on the go
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
tied up
,
working
toughness
collapse
related words >
Spartanism
,
abstruseness
,
adamantness
,
adhesiveness
,
arduousness
,
astringency
,
austerity
,
authoritarianism
,
backbone
,
body
,
bothersomeness
,
bottom
,
bullheadedness
,
burdensomeness
,
callosity
,
callousness
,
chutzpah
,
clabbering
,
clamminess
,
clotting
,
coagulation
,
cohesiveness
,
colloidality
,
complexity
,
complication
,
concreteness
,
consistency
,
courage
,
curdling
,
decisiveness
,
demandingness
,
density
,
difficultness
,
difficulty
,
discipline
,
doughiness
,
dourness
,
durability
,
durity
,
endurance
,
energy
,
exactingness
,
firmness
,
flintiness
,
force
,
fortitude
,
gameness
,
gelatinity
,
gelatinousness
,
gluelikeness
,
gluiness
,
glutinosity
,
glutinousness
,
grimness
,
grit
,
gumlikeness
,
gumminess
,
guts
,
gutsiness
,
guttiness
,
hairiness
,
hard-bittenness
,
hard-nosedness
,
hardiness
,
hardness
,
hardness of heart
,
harshness
,
heart
,
heart of oak
,
heartiness
,
heaviness
,
immovability
,
immutability
,
impenetrability
,
implacability
,
impliability
,
incrassation
,
induration
,
inelasticity
,
inexorability
,
inflexibility
,
inspissation
,
intestinal fortitude
,
intransigeance
,
intransigence
,
intransigency
,
intransigentism
,
intricacy
,
irreconcilability
,
jellification
,
jellylikeness
,
laboriousness
,
lentor
,
lustihood
,
lustiness
,
mass
,
materiality
,
meticulousness
,
mettle
,
mettlesomeness
,
might
,
mightiness
,
moxie
,
mucilaginousness
,
nerve
,
obduracy
,
obstinacy
,
onerousness
,
oppressiveness
,
palpability
,
pastiness
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
pith
,
pluck
,
pluckiness
,
ponderability
,
potency
,
power
,
powerfulness
,
regimentation
,
relentlessness
,
resistance
,
restiveness
,
retention
,
rigid discipline
,
rigidity
,
rigor
,
rigorism
,
rigorousness
,
robustness
,
ropiness
,
ruggedness
,
severity
,
slabbiness
,
sliminess
,
snugness
,
solidity
,
soundness
,
spirit
,
spissitude
,
spunk
,
spunkiness
,
stability
,
stalwartness
,
stamina
,
staying power
,
steadiness
,
steeliness
,
sternness
,
stick-to-itiveness
,
stickiness
,
sticking power
,
stiff temper
,
stiffness
,
stodginess
,
stoniness
,
stout heart
,
stoutness
,
strength
,
strength of will
,
strenuousness
,
strictness
,
stringency
,
stringiness
,
stubbornness
,
sturdiness
,
substance
,
substantiality
,
substantialness
,
syrupiness
,
tackiness
,
tangibility
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
thickening
,
thickness
,
tightness
,
toilsomeness
,
treacliness
,
troublesomeness
,
true grit
,
unalterability
,
unbendingness
,
unchangeability
,
uncompromisingness
,
ungivingness
,
unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
,
vigor
,
vigorousness
,
viscidity
,
viscosity
,
viscousness
,
vitality
difficulties
collapse
related words >
adverse circumstances
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
aggravation
,
annoyance
,
blight
,
broken fortune
,
bummer
,
care
,
cross
,
curse
,
difficulty
,
distress
,
downer
,
embarrassment
,
genteel poverty
,
hard knocks
,
hard life
,
hard lot
,
hard pinch
,
hardcase
,
hardship
,
impecuniosity
,
impecuniousness
,
insolvency
,
irritation
,
light purse
,
narrow means
,
plight
,
poorness
,
poverty
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
rigor
,
sea of troubles
,
slender means
,
straitened circumstances
,
straits
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
tight squeeze
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
unprosperousness
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
,
voluntary poverty
,
vows of poverty
tribulation
collapse
related words >
adverse circumstances
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
aggravation
,
annoyance
,
blight
,
bummer
,
calvary
,
care
,
cross
,
crucible
,
curse
,
difficulties
,
difficulty
,
downer
,
fiery ordeal
,
hard knocks
,
hard life
,
hard lot
,
hardcase
,
hardship
,
irritation
,
oppression
,
ordeal
,
persecution
,
plight
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
rigor
,
sea of troubles
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
trial
,
trials and tribulations
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
,
visitation
punishing
collapse
resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
related words >
Herculean
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
burdensome
,
castigatory
,
chastening
,
chastising
,
corrective
,
crushing
,
demanding
,
disciplinary
,
draining
,
effortful
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
forced
,
grueling
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
inflictive
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
penal
,
penological
,
punitive
,
punitory
,
retributive
,
strained
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
taxing
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
torturous
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
uphill
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
manfully
collapse
in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man; "having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home"
related words >
arduously
,
bec et ongles
,
courageously
,
dauntlessly
,
effortfully
,
gamely
,
hammer and tongs
,
hard
,
heart and soul
,
heroically
,
industriously
,
laboriously
,
like a man
,
mettlesomely
,
operosely
,
pluckily
,
spunkily
,
strenuously
,
the hard way
,
toilsomely
,
tooth and nail
,
with a will
,
with effort
hardcase
collapse
related words >
adverse circumstances
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
aggravation
,
almsman
,
almswoman
,
annoyance
,
bankrupt
,
beggar
,
blight
,
bummer
,
care
,
casual
,
charity case
,
cross
,
curse
,
difficulties
,
difficulty
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
downer
,
hard knocks
,
hard life
,
hard lot
,
hard-luck guy
,
hardship
,
indigent
,
irritation
,
loser
,
pauper
,
penniless man
,
plight
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poor unfortunate
,
poorling
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
rigor
,
sad sack
,
schlemiel
,
schlimazel
,
sea of troubles
,
starveling
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
sure loser
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
unfortunate
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
,
victim
,
welfare client
flinthearted
collapse
related words >
callous
,
calloused
,
cold
,
cold of heart
,
coldblooded
,
coldhearted
,
hard
,
hard of heart
,
hardened
,
hardhearted
,
heartless
,
insensitive
,
obdurate
,
stonyhearted
,
unfeeling
,
unmerciful
,
unnatural
,
unresponsive
weigh upon
collapse
related words >
bear hard upon
,
bear on
,
bear upon
,
beat down
,
burden
,
burthen
,
cast down
,
charge
,
crush one
,
cumber
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dampen the spirits
,
darken
,
dash
,
deject
,
depress
,
discourage
,
dishearten
,
dispirit
,
encumber
,
exhaust
,
freight
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
hamper
,
handicap
,
haunt
,
haunt the memory
,
knock down
,
lade
,
lie on
,
load
,
lower
,
lower the spirits
,
obsess
,
oppress
,
overburden
,
overload
,
overtax
,
overweight
,
press
,
press down
,
press hard upon
,
prey on
,
rest hard upon
,
rest on
,
sadden
,
saddle
,
sink
,
tax
,
tire
,
try one
,
wear out
,
wear upon one
,
weary
,
weigh down
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh heavy upon
,
weigh on
,
weight down
rushed
collapse
related words >
a bit previous
,
advanced
,
at the double
,
crowded
,
double-quick
,
double-time
,
far ahead
,
forward
,
half-baked
,
half-cocked
,
hard-pressed
,
hard-pushed
,
hard-run
,
hasty
,
hurried
,
ill-considered
,
impulsive
,
not firm
,
on the double
,
overhasty
,
oversoon
,
precipitate
,
precocious
,
premature
,
pressed
,
pressed for time
,
previous
,
pushed
,
too early
,
too soon
,
uncrystallized
,
unjelled
,
unmatured
,
unmeditated
,
unpremeditated
,
unprepared
,
unripe
,
untimely
hard earned
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
brutal
,
burdensome
,
complex
,
critical
,
crushing
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
effortful
,
exacting
,
forced
,
formidable
,
grueling
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
intricate
,
jawbreaking
,
killing
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
labored
,
laborious
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
not easy
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
punishing
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
tricky
,
troublesome
,
uphill
,
wearisome
,
wicked
hard fought
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
brutal
,
burdensome
,
complex
,
critical
,
crushing
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
effortful
,
exacting
,
forced
,
formidable
,
grueling
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
intricate
,
jawbreaking
,
killing
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
labored
,
laborious
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
not easy
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
punishing
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
tricky
,
troublesome
,
uphill
,
wearisome
,
wicked
on the move
collapse
related words >
astir
,
at it
,
at work
,
busy
,
employed
,
en route
,
engaged
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
in harness
,
in motion
,
in transit
,
occupied
,
on duty
,
on the bum
,
on the gad
,
on the go
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the road
,
on the run
,
on the tramp
,
on the wing
,
tied up
,
under sail
,
under way
,
working
on the go
collapse
related words >
astir
,
at it
,
at work
,
busy
,
employed
,
en route
,
engaged
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
in harness
,
in motion
,
in transit
,
occupied
,
on duty
,
on the bum
,
on the gad
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the move
,
on the road
,
on the run
,
on the tramp
,
on the wing
,
tied up
,
under sail
,
under way
,
working
not easy
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
adverse
,
antagonistic
,
arduous
,
brutal
,
complex
,
conflicting
,
contrary
,
counter
,
counteractive
,
critical
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
detrimental
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
exacting
,
formidable
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
harmful
,
hostile
,
in opposition
,
inimical
,
intricate
,
jawbreaking
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
laborious
,
mean
,
miserable
,
no picnic
,
operose
,
opposed
,
opposing
,
opposite
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
sinister
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
tricky
,
troublesome
,
troublous
,
trying
,
unfavorable
,
untoward
,
uphill
,
wicked
,
wretched
employed
collapse
having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"
put to use
related words >
applied
,
at it
,
at work
,
busy
,
chartered
,
engaged
,
exercised
,
exerted
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
hired
,
hireling
,
in harness
,
leased
,
let
,
mercenary
,
occupied
,
on duty
,
on the go
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
paid
,
rented
,
secondhand
,
subleased
,
sublet
,
tied up
,
used
,
working
beyond one
collapse
related words >
complex
,
complicated
,
crabbed
,
cramp
,
difficult
,
garbled
,
hard
,
hard to understand
,
impracticable
,
impractical
,
inoperable
,
insuperable
,
insurmountable
,
intricate
,
jumbled
,
knotty
,
obfuscated
,
obscure
,
obscured
,
overtechnical
,
perplexed
,
scrambled
,
too much for
,
tough
,
unachievable
,
unattainable
,
uncompassable
,
undoable
,
uneffectible
,
unnegotiable
,
unperformable
,
unrealizable
,
unsurmountable
,
unworkable
uncompromising
collapse
not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"
related words >
adamant
,
adamantine
,
cast-iron
,
dour
,
firm
,
flinty
,
fundamentalist
,
grim
,
hard
,
hard-core
,
hard-line
,
hidebound
,
immovable
,
immutable
,
implacable
,
impliable
,
inelastic
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
intransigent
,
iron
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
irreconcilable
,
muscle-bound
,
obdurate
,
obstinate
,
orthodox
,
procrustean
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
relentless
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rock-ribbed
,
rockbound
,
single-minded
,
steely
,
stern
,
stiff
,
straightlaced
,
straitlaced
,
stubborn
,
unaffected
,
unalterable
,
unbending
,
unchangeable
,
uncompliant
,
ungiving
,
unmoved
,
unrelenting
,
unyielding
backbreaking
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
annoying
,
arduous
,
besetting
,
bothersome
,
burdensome
,
crushing
,
effortful
,
forced
,
grueling
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
irksome
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
plaguey
,
punishing
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
uphill
,
vexatious
,
wearisome
red blooded
collapse
related words >
beefy
,
bouncing
,
bulldoggish
,
doughty
,
dynamic
,
energetic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
forcy
,
full-blooded
,
full-strength
,
game
,
gamy
,
gritty
,
gutsy
,
gutty
,
hale
,
hard
,
hard as nails
,
hardy
,
hearty
,
hefty
,
husky
,
iron-hard
,
lusty
,
mettlesome
,
mighty
,
nervy
,
obstinate
,
pertinacious
,
plucky
,
potent
,
powerful
,
puissant
,
resolute
,
robust
,
robustious
,
rugged
,
spirited
,
spiritful
,
spunky
,
stalwart
,
steely
,
stout
,
strapping
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
strong as brandy
,
strong as strong
,
strong-willed
,
sturdy
,
tenacious
,
tough
,
vigorous
,
vital
operose
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
assiduous
,
backbreaking
,
brutal
,
burdensome
,
complex
,
critical
,
crushing
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
diligent
,
effortful
,
elaborate
,
exacting
,
forced
,
formidable
,
grueling
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
industrious
,
intricate
,
jawbreaking
,
killing
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
labored
,
laborious
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
not easy
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
painstaking
,
punishing
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
sedulous
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
thorny
,
thorough
,
thoroughgoing
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
tricky
,
troublesome
,
uphill
,
wearisome
,
wicked
induration
collapse
related words >
Philistinism
,
armor
,
callosity
,
callousness
,
callus
,
flintiness
,
formidable defenses
,
hard heart
,
hard shell
,
hardenedness
,
hardheartedness
,
hardness
,
hardness of heart
,
heart of stone
,
imperviousness
,
insensitiveness
,
insensitivity
,
inuredness
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
rhinoceros hide
,
stoniness
,
thick skin
laboriously
collapse
in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"
related words >
ardently
,
arduously
,
assiduously
,
bec et ongles
,
burdensomely
,
difficultly
,
diligently
,
effortfully
,
energetically
,
fervently
,
hammer and tongs
,
hard
,
hardly
,
heart and soul
,
indefatigably
,
industriously
,
manfully
,
onerously
,
operosely
,
painfully
,
relentlessly
,
sedulously
,
strenuously
,
the hard way
,
tirelessly
,
toilsomely
,
tooth and nail
,
unsparingly
,
vehemently
,
with a will
,
with difficulty
,
with effort
,
with much ado
,
zealously
knotty
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Byzantine
,
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
beyond one
,
brutal
,
burled
,
complex
,
complicated
,
crabbed
,
cramp
,
critical
,
daedal
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
effortful
,
elaborate
,
exacting
,
formidable
,
garbled
,
gnarled
,
gnarly
,
gordian
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard to understand
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
intricate
,
involved
,
jawbreaking
,
jumbled
,
knobbed
,
knobbly
,
knobby
,
knoblike
,
knotted
,
knurled
,
knurly
,
laborious
,
labyrinthine
,
lumpy
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
nodal
,
noded
,
nodiform
,
nodose
,
nodular
,
nodulated
,
noduled
,
not easy
,
nubbled
,
nubbly
,
nubby
,
obfuscated
,
obscure
,
obscured
,
operose
,
overtechnical
,
perplexed
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
scrambled
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
sophisticated
,
spiny
,
steep
,
sticky
,
strenuous
,
studded
,
terrible
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
toilsome
,
torose
,
tough
,
tricky
,
tubercular
,
tuberculous
,
tuberose
,
tuberous
,
uphill
,
wicked
obdurate
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adamant
,
asleep
,
benumbed
,
bony
,
brazen
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
cement
,
cemental
,
cold
,
cold of heart
,
coldblooded
,
coldhearted
,
concrete
,
conscienceless
,
corneous
,
dead
,
deadened
,
dense
,
diamondlike
,
dogged
,
dour
,
dull
,
dure
,
firm
,
flinthearted
,
flintlike
,
flinty
,
fundamentalist
,
granitelike
,
granitic
,
hard
,
hard as nails
,
hard of heart
,
hard-bitten
,
hard-boiled
,
hard-nosed
,
hard-set
,
hardened
,
hardhearted
,
heartless
,
hidebound
,
horny
,
immovable
,
impassible
,
impenitent
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
impliable
,
indurated
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insensitive
,
insentient
,
insolent
,
inured
,
iron
,
iron-hard
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
ironlike
,
lapideous
,
lithoid
,
lithoidal
,
lost to shame
,
marble
,
marblelike
,
mulish
,
muscle-bound
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obstinate
,
obtuse
,
orthodox
,
osseous
,
procrustean
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
relentless
,
resistant
,
resistive
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rockbound
,
rocklike
,
rocky
,
seared
,
shameless
,
solid
,
steellike
,
steely
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
stonelike
,
stony
,
stonyhearted
,
straightlaced
,
straitlaced
,
stubborn
,
thick-skinned
,
thick-witted
,
tough
,
unabject
,
unbending
,
unblushing
,
uncompassionate
,
uncompromising
,
uncontrite
,
unemotional
,
unfeeling
,
unfelt
,
unmelted
,
unmerciful
,
unnatural
,
unperceptive
,
unrelenting
,
unrepentant
,
unrepenting
,
unresponsive
,
unsoftened
,
unsympathetic
,
untouched
,
unyielding
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