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hard

adjective
  1. Unyielding to pressure or force: firm 1, incompressible, solid. See resist, strong
  2. Physically toughened so as to have great endurance: hard-bitten, hard-handed, hardy, rugged, tough. Idiom: hard as nails. See continue, strong
  3. Not easy to do, achieve, or master: arduous, difficult, laborious, serious, tall, tough, uphill. See easy
  4. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy
  5. Conveying great physical force: heavy, hefty, powerful, severe. See big
  6. Indulging in drink to an excessive degree: heavy. Informal: two-fisted. See excess
  7. Rigorous and unsparing in treating others: demanding, exacting, harsh, rigid, severe, stern, strict, tough, unyielding. See easy
  8. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, grim, harsh, severe, stark. See attitude, hot
  9. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort: bitter, brutal, harsh, rough, severe. See comfort
  10. Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted, unfeeling. See attitude
  11. Bitingly hostile: acrimonious, bitter, embittered, rancorous, resentful, virulent. See attitude, love
  12. Established beyond a doubt: certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, positive, sure, unassailable, undeniable, undisputable, unquestionable. See certain, true
  13. Based on fact: factual. See real
  14. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded, unromantic. See excite, real
  15. Containing alcohol: alcoholic, intoxicative, spirituous, strong. See ingestion
adverb
  1. In a violent, strenuous way: fiercely, frantically, frenziedly, furiously, strenuously. See strong
  2. With effort: arduously, difficultly, heavily, laboriously. See easy
  3. With intense energy and force: energetically, forcefully, forcibly, powerfully, vigorously. Idioms: hammer and tongs, tooth and nail, with might and main. See strong
  4. To a point near in time, space, or relation: close, closely, near, nearby, nigh. See near

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