Hard
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| family | earth | live | #403: hard | ask | question | doubt |
Pronunciation
- (RP): häd, /hÉËd/, /hA:d/
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Homophones
- heart (in some dialects)
Adjective
hard (comparative harder, superlative hardest)
- Resistant to pressure.
- Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand
- a hard problem
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- a hard life
- Of a person, severe, unfriendly.
- Unquestionable.
- hard evidence
- Of drink, strong.
- Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds.
- (slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused.
- (bodybuilding): having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
Quotations
- (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand) 1988: âRay 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.â — An Oracle, Edmund White
Synonyms
- (resistant to pressure): resistant, solid, stony
- (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky
- (requiring a lot of effort to endure): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable
- (severe): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly
- (unquestionable): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable
- (of drink): strong
Antonyms
- (resistant to pressure): soft
- (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): easy, simple, straightforward, trite
- (requiring a lot of effort to endure): bearable, easy
- (severe): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant
- (unquestionable): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable
- (of drink):
- (low in alcohol): low-alcohol
- (non-alcoholic): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic
Translations
resistant to pressure
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requiring a lot of effort to do or understand
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demanding a lot of effort to endure
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severe, of a person
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unquestionable
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of drink: strong
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of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds
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- Chinese: 硬ç (1),å°é¾ç (2)
- Guarani: atã (h-) (1), asy (h-) (2)
- Indonesian: keras / kaku / tegar (1), sulit / sukar / rumit / susah (2)
- Japanese: 硬ã (ããã, katai) (1)
- Korean: ë±ë±í (ttakttakhan) (1), ë¨ë¨í (dandanhan) (1), ì´ë ¤ì´ (eoryeoun) (2)
- Polish: twardy (1), trudny (2), ciÄżki (3), surowy (4), niepodważalny (5), mocny (6)
- Romanian: tare (1,6), greu, dificil (2,3,4) sever (4), neindoielnic (5)
- Tupinambá: atã (s-) (1), abaÃb (2)
- Welsh: caled (1,2)
Derived terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Homophones
Adjective
hard (Alternate form: harde, comparative: harder, superlative: hardst)
- hard (resistant to pressure)
- hard (unquestionable)
- harde feiten
- hard (Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds)ang:hard
fr:hard ko:hard io:hard id:hard it:hard hu:hard pl:hard pt:hard fi:hard zh:hard
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