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?
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
Main entry: hard
Definition: dried out
Usage: hard dry rolls left over from the day before
Definition: unfortunate or hard to bear
Usage: had hard luck; a tough break
Main entry: hard
Definition: resisting weight or pressure
Main entry: hard
Definition: dispassionate
Usage: took a hard look; a hard bargainer;
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
Main entry: hard, concentrated
Definition: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
Definition: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
Usage: hard liquor
Main entry: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
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: knockout, hard, severe
Definition: very strong or vigorous
Usage: strong winds; a hard left to the chin; a knockout punch; a severe blow
Main entry: hard
Definition: with effort or force or vigor
Usage: the team played hard; worked hard all day; pressed hard on the lever; hit the ball hard; slammed the door hard
Main entry: hard
Definition: to the full extent possible; all the way
Usage: hard alee; the ship went hard astern; swung the wheel hard left
Main entry: hard
Definition: slowly and with difficulty
Usage: prejudices die hard
Definition: causing great damage or hardship
Usage: industries hit hard by the depression; she was severely affected by the bank's failure
Definition: with firmness
Usage: held hard to the railing
Main entry: hard
Definition: earnestly or intently
Usage: thought hard about it; stared hard at the accused
Main entry: hard
Definition: with pain or distress or bitterness
Usage: he took the rejection very hard
Main entry: hard
Definition: very near or close in space or time
Usage: it stands hard by the railroad tracks; they were hard on his heels; a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening
Main entry: hard
Definition: into a solid condition
Usage: concrete that sets hard within a few hours
Main entry: heavily, hard, intemperately
Definition: indulging excessively
Usage: he drank heavily