Exact Match:
- hard
- dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
- unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
- resisting weight or pressure
- dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
- very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
- with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
- to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
- slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
- causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
- with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
- earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
- with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
- very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
- into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
Synonyms:
- Herculean,
- Philistine,
- about,
- absolute,
- abstruse,
- accented,
- acerb,
- acerbic,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actively,
- acute,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- addictive,
- adverse,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- agonizingly,
- alcoholic,
- all but,
- almost,
- along toward,
- alveolar,
- amaroidal,
- anesthetic,
- angry,
- antagonistic,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- approximately,
- ardent,
- ardently,
- arduous,
- arduously,
- around,
- articulated,
- assiduous,
- assiduously,
- assimilated,
- astringent,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- atrocious,
- austere,
- avid,
- back,
- backbreaking,
- bad,
- badly,
- baffling,
- bankrupt,
- bare,
- barytone,
- bec et ongles,
- beefy,
- beyond one,
- bilabial,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- bleak,
- bloodless,
- blunt,
- bony,
- bothersome,
- bouncing,
- bowelless,
- brazen,
- broad,
- broke,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bulky,
- burdensome,
- businesslike,
- busted,
- cacuminal,
- calamitous,
- calculating,
- callous,
- calloused,
- carefully,
- cartilaginous,
- case-hardened,
- cast-iron,
- caustic,
- cement,
- cemental,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- chewy,
- clear,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- coarse,
- cohesive,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- compact,
- compacted,
- complex,
- complicated,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- conditioning,
- conflicting,
- congested,
- conscienceless,
- conscientious,
- conscientiously,
- consolidated,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- contrary,
- cool,
- coriaceous,
- corneous,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crabbed,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- critical,
- crowded,
- cruel,
- dark,
- deep,
- deeply,
- definite,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- dense,
- dental,
- despotic,
- determinedly,
- detrimental,
- devastating,
- devoted,
- devotedly,
- dictatorial,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- diligently,
- disastrous,
- dispassionate,
- dissimilated,
- distinct,
- distressing,
- distressingly,
- dog-eat-dog,
- dogged,
- doggedly,
- dorsal,
- doughty,
- dour,
- down-to-earth,
- dull,
- durable,
- dure,
- dynamically,
- eager,
- eagerly,
- earnestly,
- effortful,
- effortfully,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- energetically,
- enigmatic,
- exacting,
- excruciating,
- exhausting,
- factual,
- fast by,
- fatiguing,
- fervent,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- flat,
- flinthearted,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- forceful,
- forcefully,
- forcible,
- forcibly,
- forcy,
- formidable,
- front,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- fundamentalist,
- garbled,
- genuine,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- gluey,
- gnawing,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- grave,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grinding,
- griping,
- gristly,
- gutsy,
- guttural,
- gutty,
- habit-forming,
- habituating,
- hairy,
- hale,
- hammer and tongs,
- hard as nails,
- hard by,
- hard of heart,
- hard to understand,
- hard up,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-core,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hard-nosed,
- hard-set,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- hardhearted,
- hardworking,
- hardy,
- harmful,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- harshly,
- heart and soul,
- heartily,
- heartless,
- hearty,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hidebound,
- high,
- horny,
- hostile,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- husky,
- ill,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impassible,
- impecunious,
- impenetrable,
- impenitent,
- impermeable,
- impervious,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- impoverished,
- impregnable,
- in opposition,
- in spitting distance,
- in the red,
- inclement,
- incomprehensible,
- incontestable,
- incontrovertible,
- indefatigable,
- indefatigably,
- indigent,
- indisputable,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- industrious,
- industriously,
- inelastic,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- inhuman,
- inimical,
- inscrutable,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- insolent,
- insoluble,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intensely,
- intent,
- intently,
- intonated,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- intricate,
- inured,
- involved,
- irksome,
- iron,
- iron-hard,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- ironlike,
- irreconcilable,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- keen,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- labored,
- laborious,
- laboriously,
- lapideous,
- lasting,
- lateral,
- lax,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- lost to shame,
- low,
- lusty,
- magisterial,
- manfully,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- massive,
- matter-of-fact,
- mean,
- merciless,
- methodical,
- mid,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- miserable,
- monophthongal,
- most,
- much,
- muscle-bound,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nervy,
- never idle,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- no picnic,
- nonporous,
- not easy,
- not far,
- obdurate,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- obstinate,
- occlusive,
- onerous,
- only a step,
- open,
- operose,
- operosely,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppressive,
- orthodox,
- osseous,
- overtechnical,
- oxytone,
- pachydermatous,
- packed,
- painful,
- painfully,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- paroxysmal,
- penetrating,
- penniless,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- perseveringly,
- persistent,
- persistently,
- petrified,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- physiologically addictive,
- piercing,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- pitiless,
- plain,
- poignant,
- poor,
- positive,
- posttonic,
- potent,
- poverty-stricken,
- powerful,
- practical,
- practically,
- pragmatic,
- procrustean,
- profound,
- proof against,
- psychologically addictive,
- puissant,
- pungent,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puzzling,
- racking,
- real,
- realistic,
- red-blooded,
- relentless,
- relentlessly,
- remorseless,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- retroflex,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- ropy,
- rough,
- rounded,
- rugged,
- ruthless,
- savage,
- scabrous,
- scrambled,
- searching,
- seared,
- sedulous,
- sedulously,
- semivowel,
- serious,
- serried,
- set,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- severely,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sinewy,
- sinister,
- slavish,
- sleepless,
- sober,
- soft,
- solid,
- solidified,
- sonant,
- sound,
- sour,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spiny,
- spiritedly,
- spirituous,
- stabbing,
- stable,
- stalwart,
- stark,
- steadfastly,
- steady,
- steeled against,
- steellike,
- steely,
- steep,
- stern,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stinging,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stonyhearted,
- stopped,
- stout,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- straightlaced,
- straining,
- straitlaced,
- strapping,
- strenuous,
- strenuously,
- stressed,
- stressful,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- stubborn,
- studiously,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- surd,
- sure-enough,
- syllabic,
- systematic,
- tangled,
- tart,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- terrible,
- the hard way,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thick-skinned,
- thickset,
- thorny,
- throaty,
- ticklish,
- tireless,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- toilsomely,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- tooth and nail,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- twangy,
- tyrannical,
- unabject,
- unaccented,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unavoidable,
- unbending,
- unblushing,
- unchangeable,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- uncompromising,
- uncontrite,
- undeniable,
- unemotional,
- unfalteringly,
- unfavorable,
- unfeeling,
- unflagging,
- unforgiving,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- ungiving,
- unidealistic,
- unkind,
- unmelted,
- unmerciful,
- unmoved,
- unnatural,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unpleasant,
- unquestionable,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unremorseful,
- unrepentant,
- unrepenting,
- unresponsive,
- unrounded,
- unsentimental,
- unsleeping,
- unsoftened,
- unsolvable,
- unsparing,
- unstressed,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- untiring,
- untiringly,
- untouched,
- untoward,
- unvarnished,
- unwearied,
- unyielding,
- uphill,
- urgently,
- vehement,
- velar,
- verifiable,
- vigorous,
- vigorously,
- vinous,
- violently,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-defined,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-made,
- well-nigh,
- wicked,
- wide,
- winy,
- wiry,
- with a kick,
- with a will,
- with effort,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach,
- without mercy,
- wretched,
- zealous,
- zealously