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hard 
adjective
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why i
Synonyms: difficult Antonyms: easy Similar: ambitious, challenging, arduous, awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable, baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, catchy, tricky, delicate, ticklish, fractious, hard-fought, Herculean, nasty, tight, rocky, rough, rugged, tough, stubborn, tall, thorny, troublesome, trying, vexed, serious - metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"
Antonyms: soft Similar: brutal, cruel, harsh, rigorous, unkind, calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd, case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled, steely, stiff, uphill - not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"
Antonyms: soft Similar: adamantine, al dente, corneous, hornlike, horny, erect, tumid, firm, solid, granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony, hardened, set, lignified, woody, marmoreal, marmorean, ossified, petrified, petrous, stonelike, slaty, slatey, steely, unpadded, semihard - very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
Synonyms: knockout, severe Similar: strong - characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome Similar: effortful - of speech sounds
Antonyms: soft Similar: plosive, velar - of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
Synonyms: heavy Similar: intemperate - having undergone fermentation; "hard cider"
Synonyms: fermented Similar: soured - having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
Synonyms: strong Similar: alcoholic - unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
Synonyms: tough Similar: bad - dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
Similar: stale
adverb
- with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
- with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
Synonyms: firmly - earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
- causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank''s failure"
Synonyms: severely - slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
- indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"
Synonyms: heavily, intemperately Antonyms: lightly - into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
- very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant''s opening"
- with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
- to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
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