hard

1. also:

   • demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
   • effortful - requiring great physical effort
   • hard - dispassionate
   tells us about: difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult
   similar to:

   • ambitious, challenging - requiring full use of your abilities or resources
   • arduous - difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
   • awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable - hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
   • baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough - making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
   • catchy, tricky - having concealed difficulty
   • delicate, ticklish, touchy - difficult to handle; requiring great tact
   • fractious - unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
   • hard-fought - requiring great effort
   • herculean - extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules
   • nasty, tight - exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
   • rocky, rough - full of hardship or trials
   • rugged, tough - very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
   • serious - requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
   • tall - impressively difficult
   • thorny - bristling with perplexities
   • troublesome - causing difficulty or annoyance
   • trying - hard to endure
   • vexed - causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed
   same as: difficult
2. also:

   • difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
   • merciless, unmerciful - having or showing no mercy
   • insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
   • tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality
   similar to:

   • calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd - acting with a specific goal
   • case-hardened, hard-boiled, hardened - used of persons; emotionally hardened
   • steely - resembling steel as in hardness
3. tells us about: hardness - the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
   similar to:

   • adamantine - having the hardness of a diamond
   • al dente - of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten
   • corneous, hornlike, horny - made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
   • erect, tumid - of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
   • firm, solid - not soft or yielding to pressure
   • granitelike, granitic, rocklike, stony - hard as granite
   • hardened, set - converted to solid form (as concrete)
   • woody - made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
   • petrous, stonelike - (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness
   • semihard - somewhat hard
   • steely - resembling steel in hardness
   • unyielding - resistant to physical force or pressure
4. similar to: strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected
   same as: knockout, severe
5. similar to: effortful - requiring great physical effort
   same as: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
6. similar to: whispered - spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
   same as: surd, unvoiced, voiceless
7. same as: concentrated
8. similar to: velar - produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')
9. similar to: indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
   same as: heavy, intemperate
10. similar to: alcoholic - characteristic of or containing alcohol
    same as: strong
11. similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
    same as: tough
12. similar to: stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

2. same as: firmly
4. same as: severely
5. same as: hardly
6. same as: heavily, intemperately

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