Hard

Adjective

 * 1) Resistant to pressure.
 * 2) Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand
 * a hard problem
 * 1) * 1988, An Oracle, Edmund White
 * Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
 * a hard life
 * , severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
 * 1) Unquestionable.
 * hard evidence
 * 1) Of drink, strong.
 * 2)  Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
 * At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
 * 1) Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds.
 * 2)   Sexually aroused.
 * 3)  Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
 * 4)  Of a ferromagnetic material, having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft)

Synonyms

 * (resistant to pressure): resistant, solid, stony
 * (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky
 * (requiring a lot of effort to endure): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable
 * (severe): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly
 * (unquestionable): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable
 * (of drink): strong
 * See also Thesaurus:difficult

Antonyms

 * (resistant to pressure): soft
 * (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): easy, simple, straightforward, trite
 * (requiring a lot of effort to endure): bearable, easy
 * (severe): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant
 * (unquestionable): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable
 * (of drink):
 * (low in alcohol): low-alcohol
 * (non-alcoholic): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic
 * soft
 * ("sexually aroused"): soft, flaccid

Derived terms

 * between a rock and a hard place
 * die-hard
 * hard as nails
 * hard-ass
 * hardboard
 * hard-boiled
 * hard by
 * hard candy
 * hard case
 * hard cheese
 * hard-coded
 * hard copy
 * hardcore
 * hard disk/hard disc
 * hard done by
 * hard drink
 * hard-edged
 * harden
 * hard feelings
 * hard grass
 * hard hat
 * hard head
 * hard-hearted
 * hard-hitting


 * hard knocks
 * hard labor
 * hard light
 * hard-liner
 * hard lines
 * hard luck
 * hardness
 * hard news
 * hard-on
 * hard-pressed
 * hard radiation
 * hard sauce
 * hard-shell
 * hard times
 * hard to come by
 * hard to please
 * hard up
 * hardware
 * hard water
 * hard-wire
 * hardwood
 * hard work
 * have it hard
 * play hard to get



Adverb

 * 1)  With much force or effort.
 * He hit the puck hard up the ice.
 * They worked hard all week.
 * At the intersection, bear hard left.
 * The recession hit them especially hard.
 * Think hard on your choices.
 * 1)  With difficulty.
 * His degree was hard earned.
 * 1)  Compactly.
 * The lake had finally frozen hard.
 * 1)  Near, close.
 * 2) * 1999,, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 418:
 * It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
 * It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.

Noun

 * 1)  A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water

Adverbs for Hard
stonily; wilfully; unyieldingly; pitilessly; obdurately; unrelentingly; unrepentantly; inexorably; stubbornly; obstinately; mulishly; doggedly; perversely; fanatically; resolutely; determinedly; unmercifully; cruelly; maliciously; vengefully; implacably; bitterly; sternly; unreasonably; manifestly; palpably; undeniably.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
heard:

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: heart (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: heart (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: heart (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: heart (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: heart (in some dialects)

Adjective

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صلب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hart, hörð, harður
 * Ido: harda
 * Interlingua: dur
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: ciets, cieta
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: kietas, kieta
 * Macedonian:, цврст
 * Persian: پایدار, مقاوم, صلب
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: duru
 * Scottish Gaelic: cruaidh
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: గట్టి (gaTTi)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, դժվար
 * Catalan: complicat, difícil
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi: मुश्किल, कठिन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: desfacila
 * Interlingua: difficile
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: grūts, smags
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: sunkus, sunki
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: دشوار,, سخت, صعب
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: doirbh, duilich
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: కఠోర (kaThOra)
 * Thai: ยาก
 * Urdu:, کٹھن
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: שווער, האַרב


 * Armenian:, դժվար
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: dur, difficile
 * Limburgish:
 * Macedonian:, напорен


 * Polish: ciężki
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: కఠిన (kaThina), కఠోర (kaThOra)
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: sever
 * Lithuanian: griežtas, rūstus
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: surowy


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, sever, dur
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cruaidh, borb, garg
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,


 * Dutch: hard, harde, onweerlegbaar, onweerlegbare
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Interlingua: inquestionabile
 * Polish: niepodważalny
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: obestridlig


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: forte
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish: mocny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: tare
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: hard, kalkrijk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: ciets


 * Macedonian: тврда
 * Polish: twarda
 * Romanian: dură (apă)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: కఠిన (kaThina)
 * Turkish:


 * : atã (h-) (1), asy (h-) (2)
 * : keras / kaku / tegar (1), sulit / sukar / rumit / susah (2)
 * : 딱딱한 (ttakttakhan) (1), 단단한 (dandanhan) (1), 어려운 (eoryeoun) (2)
 * : dificil, duro
 * : tare (1,6), greu, dificil (2,3,4) sever (4), neindoielnic (5)
 * : atã (s-) (1), abaíb (2)
 * : caled (1,2)

Etymology
From *hard, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  hard, strong
 * 2)  strong, not easily devalued
 * 3) unquestionable, uncontestable
 * harde feiten: hard facts
 * 1)  heartless, unsympathetic
 * 2) hard, difficult
 * een harde strijd: a difficult fight
 * 1)  harsh, heavy
 * harde straffen: harsh punishments
 * een harde regen: heavy rain
 * 1)  hard, rich in calcium

Antonyms

 * resistant to pressure: zacht

Derived terms

 * hardheid
 * hardlopen

Adverb

 * 1)  fast, swiftly
 * 2) very
 * 3)  loudly

Adjective

 * 1)  hardcore

Noun

 * 1) hardcore pornography