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hard  (härd)

adj. hard·er, hard·est

1. Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated.

2.

a. Physically toughened; rugged.

b. Mentally toughened; strong-minded.

3.

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

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

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

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

4.

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

b. Inclement: a long, hard winter.

5.

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

b. Resistant to persuasion or appeal; obdurate.

c. Making few concessions: drives a hard bargain.

6.

a. Difficult to endure: a hard life.

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

c. Lacking compassion or sympathy; callous.

7.

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

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

8.

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

b. Bad; adverse: hard luck.

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

10.

a. Real and unassailable: hard evidence.

b. Definite; firm: a hard commitment.

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

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

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

11.

a. Marked by sharp outline or definition; stark.

b. Lacking in delicacy, shading, or nuance.

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

13.

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

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

c. High and stable. Used of prices.

14.

a. Durable; lasting: hard merchandise.

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

15. Erect; tumid. Used of a penis.

16.

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

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

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

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

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

20. High in gluten content: hard wheat.

21. Chemistry Resistant to biodegradation: a hard detergent.

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

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

adv.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Nautical Completely; fully: hard alee.

Idioms:

hard and fast

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

hard of hearing

1. Having a partial loss of hearing.

2. One who has a partial loss of hearing.

hard put

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

hard up Informal

In need; poor.

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[Middle English, from Old English heard; see kar- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: hard, difficult, arduous
These adjectives mean requiring great physical or mental effort to do, achieve, or master. Hard is the most general term: "You write with ease to show your breeding,/But easy writing's curst hard reading" Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Difficult and hard are interchangeable in many instances. Difficult, however, is often preferable where the need for skill or ingenuity is implied: "All poetry is difficult to read,/The sense of it is, anyhow" Robert Browning.
Arduous applies to burdensome labor or sustained physical or spiritual effort: "knowledge at which [Isaac] Newton arrived through arduous and circuitous paths" Thomas Macaulay.

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hard

Adjective

1. firm, solid, or rigid

2. difficult to do or understand: a hard sum

3. showing or requiring a lot of effort or application: hard work

4. unkind or unfeeling: she's very hard, no pity for anyone

5. causing pain, sorrow, or hardship: the hard life of a northern settler

6. tough or violent: a hard man

7. forceful: a hard knock

8. cool or uncompromising: we took a long hard look at our profit factor

9. indisputable and proven to be true: hard facts

10. (of water) containing calcium salts which stop soap lathering freely

11. practical, shrewd, or calculating: he is a hard man in business

12. harsh: hard light

13. (of currency) high and stable in exchange value

14. (of alcoholic drink) being a spirit rather than a wine or beer

15. (of a drug) highly addictive

16. hard-core

17. Phonetics denoting the consonants c and g when they are pronounced as in cat and got

18. politically extreme: the hard left

19. hard of hearing slightly deaf

20. hard up Informal in need of money

Adverb

1. with great energy or force: they fought so hard and well in Spain

2. with great intensity: thinking hard about the conversation

3. hard by very close to: Cleveland Place, hard by Bruntsfield Square

4. hard put (to it) scarcely having the capacity (to do something)

Noun

have a hard on Taboo slang to have an erection of the penis [Old English heard]

hardness n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" difficult demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" effortful - requiring great physical effort hard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
	2.	hard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" merciless, unmerciful - having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character" soft - compassionate and kind; conciliatory; "he was soft on his children"
	3.	hard - resisting weight or pressure soft - yielding readily to pressure or weight
	4.	hard - very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" knockout, severe strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"
	5.	hard - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, operose, toilsome, punishing, heavy effortful - requiring great physical effort
	6.	hard - produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" surd, unvoiced, voiceless
	7.	hard - (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source concentrated diffuse, diffused, soft - (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
	8.	hard - (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" soft - (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
	9.	hard - given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" intemperate, heavy indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"
	10.	hard - being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" strong alcoholic - characteristic of or containing alcohol; "alcoholic drinks"
	11.	hard - unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" tough bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
	12.	hard - dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"
Adv.	1.	hard - 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"
	2.	hard - with firmness; "held hard to the railing" firmly
	3.	hard - earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
	4.	hard - causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" severely
	5.	hard - slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
	6.	hard - indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" intemperately, heavily
	7.	hard - into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
	8.	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"
	9.	hard - with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
	10.	hard - to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

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hard

adjective 1. tough, strong, firm, solid, stiff, compact, rigid, resistant, dense, compressed, stony, impenetrable, inflexible, unyielding, rocklike << OPPOSITE soft

adjective 2. difficult, involved, complex, complicated, puzzling, tangled, baffling, intricate, perplexing, impenetrable, thorny, knotty, unfathomable, ticklish << OPPOSITE easy

adjective 3. exhausting, tough, exacting, formidable, fatiguing, wearying, rigorous, uphill, gruelling, strenuous, arduous, laborious, burdensome, Herculean, backbreaking, toilsome << OPPOSITE easy

adjective 4. forceful, strong, powerful, driving, heavy, sharp, violent, smart, tremendous, fierce, vigorous, hefty

adjective 5. harsh, severe, strict, cold, exacting, cruel, grim, stern, ruthless, stubborn, unjust, callous, unkind, unrelenting, implacable, unsympathetic, pitiless, unfeeling, obdurate, unsparing, affectless, hardhearted << OPPOSITE kind

adjective 6. grim, dark, painful, distressing, harsh, disastrous, unpleasant, intolerable, grievous, disagreeable, calamitous

adjective 7. definite, reliable, verified, cold, plain, actual, bare, undeniable, indisputable, verifiable, unquestionable, unvarnished

adverb 8. strenuously, steadily, persistently, earnestly, determinedly, doggedly, diligently, energetically, assiduously, industriously, untiringly

adverb 9. intently, closely, carefully, sharply, keenly

adverb 10. forcefully, strongly, heavily, sharply, severely, fiercely, vigorously, intensely, violently, powerfully, forcibly, with all your might, with might and main << OPPOSITE softly

adverb 11. with difficulty, painfully, laboriously

Translations

hard [hɑːd] adj → duro (= difficult); difícil; [person] → severo

adv [work] → mucho, duro; [think] → profundamente;

to look hard at sb/sth → clavar los ojos en algn/algo;

to try hard → esforzarse;

no hard feelings! → ¡sin rencor(es)!;

to be hard of hearing → ser duro de oído;

to be hard done by → ser tratado injustamente;

to be hard on sb → ser muy duro con algn;

I find it hard to believe that ... → me cuesta trabajo creer que ...

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hard [hɑːd] adj → dur(e); [question, problem] → difficile; [facts, evidence] → concret/ète

adv [work] → dur; [think, try] → sérieusement;

to look hard at → regarder fixement [+ thing]; regarder de près;

to drink hard → boire sec;

hard luck! → pas de veine!;

no hard feelings! → sans rancune!;

to be hard of hearing → être dur(e) d'oreille;

to be hard done by → être traité(e) injustement;

to be hard on sb → être dur(e) avec qn;

I find it hard to believe that ... → je n'arrive pas à croire que ...

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hard [hɑːd] adj → hart;

(question, problem) → schwierig;

(evidence) → gesichert

adv (work) → hart, schwer;

(think) → scharf;

(try) → sehr;

hard luck! → Pech!;

no hard feelings! → ich nehme es dir nicht übel;

to be hard of hearing → schwerhörig sein;

to be hard done by → ungerecht behandelt werden;

I find it hard to believe that ... → ich kann es kaum glauben, dass ...;

to look hard at sth (object) → sich +dat etw genau ansehen;

(idea) → etw gründlich prüfen

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hard [hɑːd] adj → duro/a

adv [work] → sodo; [think, try] → bene;

to look hard at → guardare fissamente; esaminare attentamente;

to drink hard → bere forte;

hard luck! → peccato!;

no hard feelings! → senza rancore!;

to be hard of hearing → essere duro/a d'orecchio;

to be hard on sb → essere severo con qn;

to be hard done by → essere trattato/a ingiustamente;

I find it hard to believe that ... → stento or faccio fatica a credere che ... + sub