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with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"

to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"

causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"

with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"

very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"

indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"

metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"

with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"

to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"

causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"

with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"

very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"

indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

So as to raise difficulties.

With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

Close or near.

To harden; to make hard.

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; - applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

So as to raise difficulties.

With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

Close or near.

To harden; to make hard.

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; - applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

Compact and solid; firm; not easy to be pierced or broken; as, hard wood; unyielding; difficult of accomplishment; as, hard to understand; laborious; fatiguing; cruel; oppressive; severe; keen; austere; inflexible; unfeeling; exacting; not easily complied with; rough; coarse; not prosperous; uttered gutturally; stiff or formal.

Forcibly; laborlously; diligently; tempestuously; closely; near; roughly; to the utmost extent; so as to become firm and unyielding; with vexation, trouble, or sorrow.

Not easily penetrated: firm: solid: difficult to understand or accomplish: difficult to bear: painful: unjust: difficult to please: unfeeling: severe: stiff: constrained.

With urgency: with difficulty: close, near, as in HARD BY; HARD-A-LEE, i.e. close to the lee-side, etc.: earnestly: forcibly.

Firm; solid; difficult; painful; severe; laborious.

With difficulty; urgently; laboriously; near; close.

Solid; firm.

Difficult; rigorous; severe.

Unfeeling; unsparing.

Thoroughgoing and energetic.

Coarse; poor; scanty; offensive.

Containing mineral salts: said of water.

In a hard manner.

Firm; solid; not easily pressed, penetrated, or broken; difficult to understand, or solve, or do, or get over, or bear; painful; laborious; oppressive; exacting; unfeeling; unkind; severe; unjust; stiff; distressing.

Close; near; diligently; laboriously; earnestly. Hard up, in want of money or means. To die hard, to die with a strnggle or impenitent. Hard water, that which contains some mineral substance that decomposes soap, and thus renders it unfit for washing. Hard-a-lee, an order to put the helm close to the lee-side of the ship. Hard-a-port, to the larboard or port side. Hard-a-starboard, to the starboard side. Hard-a-weather, to the windward side.

Not easily penetrated; firm; solid; not soft; not easy to be done or executed; laborious; fatiguing; severe; oppressive; unkind; rough; sour, as applied to beer, &c.; unprosperous, as hard times; avaricious and exacting; in the fine arts, applied to a style which rejects the graces and too rigidly adheres to the mere mechanism of art.

Close; near; earnestly; diligently, as to read hard, to work hard; importunately; nimbly; with great force.

That which offers much resistance. In anatomy. the hard parts are those which compose the osseous basis of the body; in other words, the skeleton. See Pulse, hard.

adv. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently: earnestly;— with difficulty;— uneasily; closely; nearly; rapidly; nimbly;—forcibly; violently.

Firm, resisting penetration or separation; difficult, not easy to the intellect; difficult of accomplishment; painful, distressful, laborious; cruel, oppressive, rigorous; four, rough, severe; in sensible, untouched; unhappy, vexatious; vehement, keen, severe, as a hard winter; unreasonable, unjust; forced, not easily granted; austere; rough, as liquids; harsh, stiff, constrained; not plentiful, not prosperous; avaricious, faultily sparing.

Close, near, as hard by; diligently, laboriously, incessantly; uneasily, vexatiously, distressfully; fast, nimbly; with difficulty; tempestuously, boisterously.