hard

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• Unquestionable, unequivocal.
• Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
• Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• Far, extreme.
• Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
• Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.

Adverb

• With much force or effort.
• With difficulty.
• So as to raise difficulties.
• Compactly.
• Near, close.

Noun

• A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
• Crack cocaine.
• Hard labor.

Related

Similar words

• confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky
• difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable
• harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly
• incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable
• strong

Opposite words

• soft
• easy, simple, straightforward, trite
• bearable, easy
• agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant
• controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable
• soft, flaccid

Origin

• From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European, from *kret-. Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς, Sanskrit क्रतु, Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎.