hard
Adjective
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also:tells us about: difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficultsimilar 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
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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
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tells us about: hardness - the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scalesimilar 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
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similar to: strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected
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similar to: effortful - requiring great physical effort
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similar to: whispered - spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
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same as: concentrated
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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')
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similar to: indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someonesame as: heavy, intemperate
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similar to: alcoholic - characteristic of or containing alcoholsame as: strong
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similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualitiessame as: tough
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similar to: stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
Adverb
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same as: firmly
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same as: severely
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same as: hardly
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same as: heavily, intemperately
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