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The meaning of the word "Hard" in English


Hard superl. : Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Hard superl. : Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

Hard superl. : Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

Hard superl. : Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

Hard superl. : Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

Hard superl. : Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

Hard superl. : Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Hard superl. : Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

Hard superl. : Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

Hard superl. : Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Hard superl. : Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

Hard superl. : Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

Hard adv. : With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

Hard adv. : With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

Hard adv. : Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

Hard adv. : So as to raise difficulties.

Hard adv. : With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

Hard adv. : Close or near.

Hard v. t. : To harden; to make hard.

Hard n. : A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Example:


Taxonomy
Los Angeles, Haunted Mansion, October 31st, NYC, New York City, UPCOMING EVENTS, SHRINE, two-day festival, all-star line, line-up, Terminal 5, October 10th, Beverly Glen, Circle, Bel Air CA, TICKETS, CROOKERS, NYE.

Defination from the web:
HARD Haunted Mansion will return to THE SHRINE in Los Angeles as a two-day festival on Friday October 30th and Saturday, October 31st, 2009. ... NEW YORK CITY -- HARD NYC will take over Terminal 5 on Saturday October 10th, 2009 featuring CROOKERS, MAJOR LAZER, RUSKO, ... 

synonyms
  (adjective) difficult
  (adjective) knockout
  (adjective) severe
  (adjective) arduous
  (adjective) backbreaking
  (adjective) grueling
  (adjective) gruelling
  (adjective) heavy
  (adjective) laborious
  (adjective) operose
  (adjective) punishing
  (adjective) toilsome
  (adjective) unvoiced
  (adjective) voiceless
  (adjective) surd
  (adjective) concentrated
  (adjective) intemperate
  (adjective) strong
  (adjective) tough
  (adverb) firmly
  (adverb) severely
  (adverb) heavily
  (adverb) intemperately
antonyms
  (adjective) easy
  (adjective) soft
  (adjective) voiced
  (adverb) lightly
related terms
  (adjective) difficult
  (adjective) hard
  (adjective) tough
  (adjective) demanding
  (adjective) effortful
  (adjective) insensitive
  (adjective) merciless
  (adjective) unmerciful
similar terms
  (adjective) arduous
  (adjective) strong
  (adjective) tough
  (adjective) adamantine
  (adjective) al dente
  (adjective) alcoholic
  (adjective) ambitious
  (adjective) awkward
  (adjective) bad
  (adjective) baffling
  (adjective) calculating
  (adjective) calculative
  (adjective) case-hardened
  (adjective) catchy
  (adjective) challenging
  (adjective) conniving
  (adjective) corneous
  (adjective) delicate
  (adjective) effortful
  (adjective) embarrassing
  (adjective) erect
  (adjective) firm
  (adjective) fractious
  (adjective) granitelike
  (adjective) granitic
  (adjective) hard-boiled
  (adjective) hard-fought
  (adjective) hardened
  (adjective) herculean
  (adjective) hornlike
  (adjective) horny
  (adjective) indulgent
  (adjective) knotty
  (adjective) lignified
  (adjective) nasty
  (adjective) ossified
  (adjective) petrified
  (adjective) petrous
  (adjective) problematic
  (adjective) problematical
  (adjective) rocklike
  (adjective) rocky
  (adjective) rough
  (adjective) rugged
  (adjective) scheming
  (adjective) semihard
  (adjective) serious
  (adjective) set
  (adjective) shrewd
  (adjective) solid
  (adjective) stale
  (adjective) steely
  (adjective) sticky
  (adjective) stonelike
  (adjective) stony
  (adjective) tall
  (adjective) thorny
  (adjective) ticklish
  (adjective) tight
  (adjective) touchy
  (adjective) tricky
  (adjective) troublesome
  (adjective) trying
  (adjective) tumid
  (adjective) unenviable
  (adjective) unyielding
  (adjective) velar
  (adjective) vexed
  (adjective) whispered
  (adjective) woody


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