| 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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