hard

1. Not easy;
   Requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure (synset 300748528)
   "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?"
   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. Dispassionate (synset 301158857)
   "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"
   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. Resisting weight or pressure (synset 301154418)
   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. Very strong or vigorous (synset 302330284)
   "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
   similar to: strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected
   same as: knockout, severe
5. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
   Especially physical effort (synset 300840083)
   "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"
   similar to: effortful - requiring great physical effort
   same as: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
6. Produced without vibration of the vocal cords (synset 302294026)
   "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
   similar to: whispered - spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
   same as: surd, unvoiced, voiceless
7. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source (synset 301161269)
   same as: concentrated
8. (of speech sounds);
   Produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum (synset 301160012)
   "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
   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. Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors (synset 301302121)
   "a hard drinker"
   similar to: indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
   same as: heavy, intemperate
10. Being distilled rather than fermented;
    Having a high alcoholic content (synset 301162481)
    "hard liquor"
    similar to: alcoholic - characteristic of or containing alcohol
    same as: strong
11. Unfortunate or hard to bear (synset 301131133)
    "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
    similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
    same as: tough
12. Dried out (synset 301073471)
    "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
    similar to: stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

1. With effort or force or vigor (synset 400091820)
   "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
2. With firmness (synset 400092514)
   "held hard to the railing"
   same as: firmly
3. Earnestly or intently (synset 400092597)
   "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
4. Causing great damage or hardship (synset 400092328)
   "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
   same as: severely
5. Slowly and with difficulty (synset 400092166)
   "prejudices die hard"; "he was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight"
   same as: hardly
6. Indulging excessively (synset 400178004)
   "he drank heavily"
   same as: heavily, intemperately
7. Into a solid condition (synset 400093000)
   "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
8. Very near or close in space or time (synset 400092809)
   "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
9. With pain or distress or bitterness (synset 400092706)
   "he took the rejection very hard"
10. To the full extent possible;
    All the way (synset 400092022)
    "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

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