Sounds | hhaa'rd | |
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Rhymes | avant-garde ... yard: 51 rhymes with aard... |
Meaning | dispassionate. | |
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Narrower | calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd | Used of persons |
case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled | Used of persons | |
steely | resembling steel as in hardness | |
See also | difficult, hard | not easy |
insensitive | Deficient in human sensibility | |
merciless, unmerciful | Having or showing no mercy | |
tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality | |
Opposite | soft | Compassionate and kind |
Spanish | duro | |
Nouns | hardness | devoid of passion or feeling |
Meaning | Resisting weight or pressure. | |
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Attribute of | hardness | The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure |
Narrower | adamantine | Having the hardness of a diamond |
al dente | Of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten | |
corneous, hornlike, horny | made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | |
firm, solid | not soft or yielding to pressure | |
granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony | Hard as granite | |
hardened, set | converted to solid form (as concrete) | |
petrous, stonelike | (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone / stone in hardness | |
semihard | Somewhat hard | |
steely | resembling steel in hardness | |
tumid, erect | Of sexual organs | |
unyielding | resistant to physical force or pressure | |
woody | made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls | |
See also | solid | Of definite shape and volume |
Opposite | soft | Yielding readily to pressure or weight |
Spanish | duro | |
Catalan | dur | |
Nouns | hardness | the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure |
Meaning | Very strong or vigorous. | |
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Example | "a hard left to the chin" | |
Synonyms | knockout, severe | |
Broader | strong | Having strength or power greater than average or expected |
Spanish | duro, severo |
Meaning | Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. | |
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Example | "hard labor" | |
Synonyms | arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome | |
Broader | effortful | requiring great physical effort |
Spanish | agotador, arduo, duro, fatigoso, laborioso, penoso, pesado | |
Catalan | ardu, dur, esgotador, fatigant, fatigós, feixuc, laboriós, penós, pesat | |
Nouns | hardness | the quality of being difficult to do |
Adverbs | hard | with effort or force or vigor |
Meaning | produced without vibration of the vocal cords. | |
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Synonyms | unvoiced, voiceless, surd | |
Narrower | whispered | spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords |
Opposite | voiced, sonant, soft | produced with vibration of the vocal cords |
Spanish | sordo |
Meaning | (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source. | |
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Synonym | concentrated | |
Opposite | soft, diffuse, diffused | (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected |
Meaning | (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum. | |
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Example | "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants" | |
Narrower | velar | produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as 'k' in 'cat' and 'g' in 'gun' and 'ng / ng' in 'sing') |
Opposite | soft | (of speech sounds) |
Spanish | duro, fuerte |
Meaning | given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors. | |
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Example | "a hard drinker" | |
Synonyms | intemperate, heavy | |
Broader | indulgent | Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone |
Spanish | excesivo, inmoderado, intemperado |
Meaning | Distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content. | |
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Example | "hard liquor" | |
Synonym | strong | |
Broader | alcoholic | Characteristic of or containing alcohol |
Spanish | fuerte | |
Catalan | fort |
Meaning | unfortunate / unfortunate or hard to bear. | |
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Example | "had hard luck" | |
Synonym | tough | |
Broader | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
Spanish | duro | |
Nouns | hardness | excessive sternness |
Meaning | dried out. | |
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Example | "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" | |
Broader | stale | Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
Spanish | duro, seco |
Meaning | With effort or force or vigor. | |
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Spanish | agotadoramente, arduamente, duramente, fatigosamente, laboriosamente, penosamente, pesadamente, rigurosamente | |
Adjectives | hard | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion |
Meaning | With firmness. | |
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Example | "held hard to the railing" | |
Synonym | firmly | |
Spanish | firmemente, fuerte |
Meaning | earnestly or intently. | |
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Spanish | intensamente, mucho |
Meaning | Causing great damage or hardship. | |
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Example | "industries hit hard by the depression" | |
Synonym | severely |
Meaning | slowly and with difficulty. | |
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Example | "prejudices die hard" | |
Synonym | hardly | |
Adjectives | hard | not easy |
Meaning | indulging excessively. | |
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Synonyms | heavily, intemperately | |
Opposite | lightly | indulging with temperance |
Spanish | copiosamente, intemperadamente, pesadamente |
Meaning | Into a solid condition. | |
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Example | "concrete that sets hard within a few hours" | |
Adjectives | hardened | converted to solid form (as concrete) |
Meaning | Very near or close in space or time. | |
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Meaning | With pain or distress or bitterness. | |
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Example | "he took the rejection very hard" | |
Spanish | mal |
Meaning | To the full extent possible; all the way. | |
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