hard
adjectiveadverbnounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//hɑːd//
- United States//hɑɹd//
Solid and firm.
adjective
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Solid and firm.
Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.
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Solid and firm. Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
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Solid and firm. Strong.
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Solid and firm. Containing alcohol.
hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda
Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […].
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Solid and firm. Very acidic or tannic.
While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.
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Solid and firm. High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
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Solid and firm. Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
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Solid and firm. Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
hard X-rays
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Solid and firm. Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
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Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
a hard problem; a hard question; a hard topic
Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
The stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
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Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
a hard life
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Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character
The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.
[L]eave off fornicating, leave the Girls to the Boys, and ſtand to thy Bottle: It is a Virtue becoming our Years; and don't be too hard on a vvild honeſt young Rake.
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datedHaving a severe property; presenting difficulty. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
The stag was too hard for the horse.
a power which will be always too hard for them
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Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
a hard site
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slangHaving a severe property; presenting difficulty. Tough, muscular, badass.
He thinks he's well hard.
I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
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slangHaving a severe property; presenting difficulty. Excellent, impressive.
This song goes hard.
This guy always has the hardest fits.
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Unquestionable; unequivocal.
hard evidence; a hard requirement
[…]for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.
Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!
Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.
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Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
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slangSexually aroused; having an erect penis.
I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.
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Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
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Fortis. Plosive.
There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
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Fortis. Unvoiced.
Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.
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Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.
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Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
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Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
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In a physical form, not digital.
a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive
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Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
a hard reboot or reset
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Far, extreme.
hard right, hard left
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Not having had the natural gum boiled off.
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Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]
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Hardcore.
Etymology
From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hard (“hard”), West Frisian hurd (“hard”), Alemannic German hert (“hard”), Bavarian hoat (“hard”), Central Franconian haat (“hard”), Dutch hard (“hard”), German hart (“hard”), Luxembourgish haart (“hard”), Danish and Swedish hård (“hard”), Faroese and Icelandic harður (“hard”), Norwegian Bokmål hard (“hard”), Norwegian Nynorsk hard, hard’u (“hard”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus, “hard”), Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús, “strong, mighty”), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu, “power, might, ability”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).
adverb
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With much force or effort.
He hit the puck hard up the ice.
They worked hard all week.
The recession hit them especially hard.
Think hard about your choices.
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With difficulty.
His degree was hard earned.
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obsoleteSo as to raise difficulties.
The question is hard set.
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Compactly.
The lake had finally frozen hard.
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archaicNear, close.
At the intersection, bear hard left.
The King your brother is now hard at hand, / Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders / Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands / And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
[…]whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
noun
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A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]
He brought the dinghy up to the careening hard. Two or three boats lay on their sides on the sloping roadway, but there was no sign of life.
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A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
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slangCrack cocaine.
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slangHard labor.
The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.
verb
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obsoleteTo make hard, harden.
He knows vain men: he sees their harts that hard them In Guiles and Wiles, and will not hee regard them?
Etymology
From Middle English harden, herden, from Old English heardian (“to become hard”) and hierdan (“to make hard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hardēn and *hardijan, from Proto-Germanic *hardijaną. Cognates Cognate with Dutch harden (“to harden”), German härten (“to harden”), Danish hærde (“to harden; to temper”), Icelandic herða (“to harden”), Norwegian Bokmål herde (“to harden; to toughen”), Norwegian Nynorsk herda (“to make hard, temper; harden”), Swedish härda (“harden, temper”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gahardjan), *𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*hardjan, “to harden”).
Forms
- plural
- hards
- comparative
- harder, more hard
- superlative
- hardest, most hard
- past tense
- harded
- past participle
- harded
- present participle
- harding
- third person singular
- hards