hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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(adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
(adjective) dispassionate | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
(adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
(adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
(adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
(adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
(adjective) dried out | - |
(adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
(adverb) with effort or force or vigor | - |
(adverb) to the full extent possible; all the way | - |
(adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hardly |
(adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: severely |
(adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: firmly |
(adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: heavily, intemperately |
(adverb) earnestly or intently | - |
(adverb) with pain or distress or bitterness | - |
(adverb) very near or close in space or time | - |
(adverb) into a solid condition | - |
hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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(noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardcover |
hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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(noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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(adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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(noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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(verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
(verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
hardened | (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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(adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
(adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, inured |
(adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: set |
(adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened | Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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(noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
(noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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(adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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(adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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hardiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: lustiness, robustness |
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(noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardihood |
hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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hardly | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, just, scarce, scarcely |
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(adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hard |
(adverb) almost not | Synonyms: barely, scarce, scarcely |
hardness | (noun) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | - |
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(noun) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale | - |
(noun) the quality of being difficult to do | Synonyms: ruggedness |
(noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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(noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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(noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
(noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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(adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
(adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |