hard
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
beverages
bodybuilding
business
drugs
finance
food
government
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
manner
media
medicine
military
motor-racing
natural-sciences
nautical
oenology
pharmacology
phonetics
phonology
photography
physical-sciences
physics
politics
pornography
racing
sciences
sexuality
sports
transport
war
wine
Etymology: From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola hard (“hard”), West Frisian hurd (“hard”), Alemannic German hert (“hard”), Bavarian hoat (“hard”), Central Franconian haat (“hard”), Dutch hard (“hard”), German hart (“hard”), Luxembourgish haart (“hard”), Danish and Swedish hård (“hard”), Faroese and Icelandic harður (“hard”), Norwegian Bokmål hard (“hard”), Norwegian Nynorsk hard, hard’u (“hard”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus, “hard”), Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús, “strong, mighty”), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu, “power, might, ability”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
Inflected forms:
form: harder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more hard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hardest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most hard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: harder
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: hardest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: hards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
examples: Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
examples: This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
examples: hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda
Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […].
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
examples: While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
examples: hard X-rays
gloss: Solid and firm.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: a hard problem;  a hard question;  a hard topic
Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
The stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
It’s been said that, for nonstellar teachers at least, the hardest things to teach are the things one loves most.
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: a hard life
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: a hard master;  a hard heart;  hard words;  a hard character
The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.
[L]eave off fornicating, leave the Girls to the Boys, and ſtand to thy Bottle: It is a Virtue becoming our Years; and don't be too hard on a vvild honeſt young Rake.
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: The stag was too hard for the horse.
a power which will be always too hard for them
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: a hard site
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He thinks he's well hard.
I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This song goes hard.
This guy always has the hardest fits.
gloss: Unquestionable; unequivocal.
pos: adj
examples: hard evidence;  a hard requirement
[…]for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.
Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!
Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.
gloss: Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
pos: adj
examples: At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
gloss: Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.
gloss: Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
pos: adj
gloss: Fortis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
gloss: Fortis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.
gloss: Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
pos: adj
examples: The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
pos: adj
gloss: In a physical form, not digital.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive
gloss: Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a hard reboot or reset
gloss: Far, extreme.
pos: adj
examples: hard right, hard left
gloss: Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
pos: adj
examples: Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]
gloss: Hardcore.
pos: adj
gloss: With much force or effort.
pos: adv
examples: He hit the puck hard up the ice.
They worked hard all week.
The recession hit them especially hard.
Think hard about your choices.
The couple were fucking each other hard.
Be nought diſmayd that her vnmoued mind, / doth ſtill perſiſt in her rebellious pride: / ſuch loue not lyke to luſts of baſer kynd, / the harder vvonne, the firmer vvill abide.
[…] My father / Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself; […]
prayed so hard for mercy from the prince
I played hard, I drank hard, I rode hard, and did everything much on the same pattern.
What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices?
gloss: With difficulty.
pos: adv
examples: His degree was hard earned.
gloss: So as to raise difficulties.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: The question is hard set.
gloss: Compactly.
pos: adv
examples: The lake had finally frozen hard.
gloss: Near, close.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: At the intersection, bear hard left.
The King your brother is now hard at hand, / Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders / Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands / And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
[…]whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
gloss: A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]
He brought the dinghy up to the careening hard. Two or three boats lay on their sides on the sloping roadway, but there was no sign of life.
gloss: A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Hard labor.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.
Synonyms: adamantine
concrete
firm
granitic
grim
hard
inflexible
lithic
resistant
rigid
robust
solid
stiff
stout
sturdy
stony
tough
unbending
unyielding
Antonyms: cushiony
flexible
soft
spongy
moldable
tender
yielding
Related words: hardpeer
hardy
hard as nails
Derived words: an old dog for a hard road
between a rock and a hard place
blow-hard
bone-hard
bone hard
cold hard cash
die-hard
do the hard yards
drive a hard bargain
dumb hard
fall on hard times
find out the hard way
forhard
give someone a hard time
go hard
go hard or go home
go hard with someone
hard act to follow
hard and fast
hard-and-fast
hard-arse
hard as a rock
hard as brazil
hard as Chinese algebra
hard as Chinese arithmetic
hard as iron
hard ask
hard as nails
hard-ass
hard-assed
hard-assery
hard as the nether millstone
hard atheism
hard atheist
hard at work
hardback
hardbacked
hardbag
hardbake
hardball
hardbeam
hard-bill
hard-block
hardboard
hardbody
hard-boil
hard-boiled
hard bop
hardbottom
hardbound
hard bread
hard Brexit
hard-brick
hard candy
hard case
hard cases make bad law
hard cash
hard charger
hard-charging
hard cheese
hard cider
hard clam
hard class
hard coal
hardcoal
hardcoat
hard-code
hard code
hard coded
hard copy
hard core
hard-core
hardcore
hard count
hard-counter
hard counter
hardcourt
hard court
hardcover
hardcovered
hard-cured
hard currency
hard deck
hard deletion
hard determinism
hard determinist
hard disc
hard disc drive
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard dough bread
hard drink
hard drive
harddrive
hard-driving
hard drop
hard drug
hard ears
hard-easy effect
hard edge
hard-edged
hard-edge painting
hardel
harden
harder daddy
hard error
harder than Chinese math
hardface
hard facts
hard fault
hard-favored
hard-favoured
hard-featured
hard feelings
hard fern
hardfern
hard-fisted
hardflip
hard float
hard-float
hard food
hard fork
hard freeze
hard g
hard gainer
hard going
hardgoods
hard goods
hard-grained
hardgrass
hard grass
hardground
hardhack
hard hand
hard handed
hardhanded
hard-handed
hard-handedly
hard-handedness
hard hat
hard head
hardheaded
hard-headed
hard-head
hardhead
hard-hearted
hardhearted
hard-heartedly
hard-heartedness
hard hit
hard inquiry
hardish
hard jade
hard kill
hard knock
hard knocks
hard labor
hard labour
hard-land
hard land
hard landing
hard landscaping
hard launch
hard-launch
hard-left
hard left
hard lemonade
hard lens
hard light
hard-line
hard line
hardline
hard-liner
hardliner
hard lines
hard link
hard liquor
hardlock
hardlooking
hard loser
hard-luck
hard luck
hard-luck story
hard luxury
hardly
hard man
hardman
hard maple
hard market
hard matte
hard measles
hard metal
hard milkwood
hard mode
hard money
hard-mouthed
hard multum
hard mutation
hard nail
hard neck
hardness
hard news
hard-nose
hard nose
hard nosed
hard-nosed
hardnosed
hard nut to crack
hard of hearing
hard of heart
hard of seeing
hard of thinking
hardometer
hard-on
hardon
hard on the eyes
hard out
hardpack
hardpacked
hardpad
hard palate
hard-pan
hardpan
hard pass
hardpaste
hard-paste
hard paste
hard paywall
hard pill
hard pill to swallow
hard pine
hardpoint
hard power
hardpressed
hard pull
hard put
hard R
hard r
hard radiation
hard rain
hard real-time
hard reboot
hard redirect
hard reset
hard return
hard right
hard-right
hard rock
hard rocker
hard roe
hard row to hoe
hard rubber
hard-run
hard sauce
hardscape
hard science
hard science fiction
hardscrabble
hard-scrabble
hard-sectored
hard sectoring
hard sell
hard-sell
hard seltzer
hard-set
hard-shell clam
hardshelled
hard-shell
hardshell
hardship
hard shoulder
hard sign
hard skill
hard sledding
hard soap
hardsome
hard space
hardsport
hardspun
hardstand
hard standing
hard start
hard steel
hardstep
hardstone
hard stop
hardstuck
hard stuff
hardstyle
hardsuit
hard swap
hard swearing
hard tack
hard-tack
hardtack
hardtail
hard target
hard tech
hard tick
hard-ticket
hard time
hard times
hard to come by
hard-to-get
hardtop
hard to please
hard to swallow
hard truth
hard up
hard-up
hard vacuum
hard vore
hardwall
hard war
hardware
hard water
hardway
hard way
hardwear
hard wheat
hard white
hard-wire
hard wired
hardwired
hardwood
hard word
hard words
hard work
hard worker
hardworking
hard X-ray
hard yakka
hard yards
have a hard time
have a hard time of it
have it hard
hit hard
hit one hard
hold hard
hold yew hard
learn the hard way
leather-hard
make hard work of
make someone hard to catch
microhard
Nintendo hard
no hard feelings
nonhard
NP-hard
old habits die hard
overhard
over hard
play hard to get
prehard
put the hard word on
Queen's hard bargain
rad-hard
ridden hard and put away wet
rock-hard
rock hard
rode hard and put up wet
school of hard knocks
semi-hard
semihard
stonehard
stone-hard
the hard way
too-hard basket
too hard basket
tryhard
try-hard
ultrahard
working hard or hardly working
English terms starting with
hard by
blowhard
cry harder
die hard
go hard in the paint
go hard on
go hard with
hard aport
hard astarboard
hard at it
hard-baked
hard-bitten
hard-bound
hard-coded
hard-contested
hard done by
hard-drawn
hard drinker
hard-drinking
hard-driven
hard-earned
hard-fought
hard-gained
hard-got
hard-gotten
hard-hit
hard-hitting
hard on
hard upon
hard on one's heels
hard on the heels
hardover
hard-pressed
hard-pushed
hard-reset
hard-wearing
hard-wired
hard-won
hard-working
ride hard
ride hard and put away wet
ride someone hard and put them away wet
run hard
Bucklers Hard
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: уур
roman: uur
lang: Arabic
word: صَعْب
roman: ṣaʕb
lang: Arabic
word: صعب
roman: ṣaʕab
lang: Arabic
word: وَاعْر
roman: wāʕr
lang: Arabic
word: صعب
lang: Armenian
word: բարդ
roman: bard
lang: Armenian
word: դժվար
roman: džvar
lang: Bashkir
word: ауыр
roman: awır
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡыйын
roman: qıyın
lang: Bulgarian
word: труден
roman: truden
lang: Catalan
word: complicat
lang: Catalan
word: difícil
lang: Cebuano
word: lisod
lang: Chamicuro
word: yeewa
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏍᏓᏯ
roman: sdaya
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 難 /难
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 難 /难
roman: nán
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 困難 /困难
roman: kùnnan
lang: Czech
word: těžký
lang: Czech
word: obtížný
lang: Czech
word: krušný
lang: Danish
word: vanskelig
lang: Dutch
word: moeilijk
lang: Dutch
word: zwaar
lang: Egyptian
word: q-qs-n:nDs
roman: qsn
lang: Esperanto
word: malfacila
lang: Estonian
word: kõva
lang: Faroese
word: torførur
lang: Faroese
word: strævin
lang: Faroese
word: ringur
lang: Finnish
word: vaikea
lang: Finnish
word: kova
lang: Finnish
word: hankala
lang: French
word: dur
lang: French
word: difficile
lang: German
word: schwierig
lang: German
word: hart
lang: German
word: schwer
lang: German
word: herausfordernd
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃
roman: aglus
lang: Greek
word: δύσκολος
roman: dýskolos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χαλεπός
roman: khalepós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐργώδης
roman: ergṓdēs
lang: Haitian Creole
word: difisil
lang: Hindi
word: कठिन
roman: kaṭhin
lang: Hindi
word: मुश्किल
roman: muśkil
lang: Hindi
word: दूभर
roman: dūbhar
lang: Hungarian
word: nehéz
lang: Icelandic
word: erfiður
lang: Ido
word: desfacila
lang: Ilocano
word: narigat
lang: Indonesian
word: sulit
lang: Indonesian
word: sukar
lang: Indonesian
word: susah
lang: Interlingua
word: difficile
lang: Irish
word: doiligh
lang: Italian
word: duro
lang: Italian
word: difficile
lang: Italian
word: intenso
lang: Japanese
word: 難しい
roman: muzukashii
lang: Japanese
word: 困難な
roman: konnan na
lang: Korean
word: 어렵다
roman: eoryeopda
lang: Kyrgyz
word: оор
roman: oor
lang: Latin
word: difficilis
lang: Latvian
word: grūts
lang: Latvian
word: smags
lang: Limburgish
word: helle
lang: Lithuanian
word: sunkus
lang: Lithuanian
word: sunki
lang: Lombard
word: dur
lang: Macedonian
word: тежок
roman: težok
lang: Malay
word: susah
lang: Navajo
word: nantłʼah
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vanskelig
lang: Occitan
word: dificil
lang: Old English
word: earfoþe
lang: Old Tupi
word: abaíb
lang: Pashto
word: ګران
roman: grân
lang: Persian
word: دشوار
roman: došvâr
lang: Persian
word: مشکل
roman: moškel
lang: Persian
word: سخت
roman: saxt
lang: Persian
word: صعب
roman: sa'b
lang: Polish
word: trudny
lang: Portuguese
word: difícil
lang: Romanian
word: greu
lang: Russian
word: тяжёлый
roman: tjažólyj
lang: Russian
word: тру́дный
roman: trúdnyj
lang: Samoan
word: faigatā
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: doirbh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: duilich
lang: Spanish
word: duro
lang: Spanish
word: difícil
lang: Spanish
word: tranca
lang: Spanish
word: costar
lang: Swahili
word: -gumu
lang: Swedish
word: svår
lang: Swedish
word: besvärlig
lang: Tagalog
word: mahirap
lang: Tajik
word: мушкил
roman: muškil
lang: Tamil
word: கடினம்
roman: kaṭiṉam
lang: Telugu
word: కఠోర
roman: kaṭhōra
lang: Tetum
word: susar
lang: Thai
word: ยาก
roman: yâak
lang: Tocharian B
word: waimene
lang: Tocharian B
word: āmāskai
lang: Tongan
word: faingataʻa
lang: Turkish
word: zor
lang: Turkish
word: çetin
lang: Turkish
word: kıyın
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دشوار
roman: düşvâr
lang: Ukrainian
word: складни́й
roman: skladnýj
lang: Urdu
word: مشکل
roman: muśkil
lang: Urdu
word: کٹھن
roman: kaṭhin
lang: Vietnamese
word: khó
lang: Walloon
word: deur
lang: Walloon
word: målåjhey
lang: Welsh
word: caled
lang: Welsh
word: anodd
lang: Yiddish
word: שווער
roman: shver
lang: Yiddish
word: האַרב
roman: harb