Main entry: difficult, hard
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Usage: 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?
Antonyms: easy
Definition: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
Antonyms: tender
Definition: easy to cut or chew
Antonyms: untoughened, tender
Definition: physically untoughened
Antonyms: tender
Definition: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Antonyms: leaky
Definition: permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases
Antonyms: loose
Definition: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Antonyms: unambitious, ambitionless
Definition: having little desire for success or achievement
Antonyms: nice
Definition: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
Antonyms: graceful
Definition: characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
Antonyms: frivolous
Definition: not serious in content or attitude or behavior
Antonyms: rugged
Definition: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
Antonyms: delicate
Definition: exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
Main entry: hard
Definition: resisting weight or pressure
Antonyms: soft
Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
Antonyms: come up, uprise, rise, ascend
Definition: come up, of celestial bodies
Antonyms: liquid
Definition: existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
Antonyms: gaseous
Definition: existing as or having characteristics of a gas
Antonyms: hollow
Definition: not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
Antonyms: unerect
Definition: not upright in position or posture
Antonyms: soft
Definition: not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Antonyms: nonwoody
Definition: not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood
Main entry: hard
Definition: dispassionate
Usage: took a hard look; a hard bargainer;
Antonyms: soft
Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory
Antonyms: soft
Definition: not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Main entry: hard
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
Usage: Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants
Antonyms: soft
Definition: (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')
Main entry: hard, concentrated
Definition: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
Antonyms: diffuse, diffused, soft
Definition: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
Main entry: voiceless, unvoiced, hard, surd
Definition: produced without vibration of the vocal cords
Usage: unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'
Main entry: hard, tough
Definition: unfortunate or hard to bear
Usage: had hard luck; a tough break
Definition: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
Antonyms: good
Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
Main entry: hard, strong
Definition: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
Usage: hard liquor
Antonyms: nonalcoholic
Definition: characterized by the absence of alcohol
Main entry: hard
Definition: dried out
Usage: hard dry rolls left over from the day before
Antonyms: fresh
Definition: recently made, produced, or harvested
Main entry: heavy, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, backbreaking, arduous, toilsome, operose, punishing
Definition: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Usage: 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
Antonyms: effortless
Definition: requiring or apparently requiring no effort
Main entry: knockout, hard, severe
Definition: very strong or vigorous
Usage: strong winds; a hard left to the chin; a knockout punch; a severe blow
Antonyms: weak
Definition: wanting in physical strength
Main entry: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
Antonyms: nonindulgent, strict
Definition: characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Main entry: heavily, hard, intemperately
Definition: indulging excessively
Usage: he drank heavily
Antonyms: lightly
Definition: indulging with temperance