hard
IPA: hˈɑrd
noun
- (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
- (countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
- (uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.
- (uncountable, slang) Hard labor.
- A surname.
adjective
- (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
- Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut or penetrate.
- (of drink or drugs) Strong.
- (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
- (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
- (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- (slang) Tough, muscular, badass.
- Unquestionable, unequivocal.
- (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- (phonetics, not comparable) Fortis.
- Plosive.
- Unvoiced.
- (Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- (not comparable)
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- (politics) Far, extreme.
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- (finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- (of pornography) hardcore
adverb
- (manner) With much force or effort.
- (manner) With difficulty.
- (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
- (manner) Compactly.
- (now archaic) Near, close.
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Examples of "hard" in Sentences
- It is hard to get a pas.
- It is hard to inspect flaws.
- It was hard to inveigle her.
- It is not very hard to recoup.
- It's hard to talk with a smoker.
- For infants, it is hard to stride.
- It is hard to chew on the crustacean.
- It is hard not to wince at the notion.
- It is hard to overestimate the significance of that.
- Grasps both hard side irrevence and hard core straightforwardness.
- Schulz says that the term hard landing may depend on how you define it.
- My God! Effie, it is a hard world -- it is hard, _hard_ to keep straight in it.
- She rubbed the goose bumps on her arms with both hands, her expression hard to read
- 'These Christians are hard -- _hard_!' thought Eleanor sharply, closing her tired lids.
- I am doing that, but to be honest, I find the label hard SF rather intimidating, yet I feel that's what I've written.
- The fact is, _I work hard and I play hard_, and I believe each is equally necessary for good health and real happiness.
- _For he, hard_ Head (_and_ hard, _sith like a_ Whet-stone) _It gives_ Wits _edge, and draws them too like_ Jet-stone) _Is_ Caput Mundi _for a world of School-tricks,
- So near was the stranger, that we plainly heard the officer of the deck call out to his own quarter-master to "port, hard a-port -- _hard_ a-port, and be d---- d to you!"
- The pressure squeezes and pulls at my chest so hard, so hard so very hard, it is like you can feel the muscle fibers tearing and popping as my heart races and slows erratically.
- 'Well, as it is your graduation from kindergarten, and next year you will be in hard school ... '~-hard school was what Shana and Sylvia called it because they had homework - "you will probably not want to hear my little story ever again."