hard

Meaning

Adj

1. Solid and firm.
2. Solid and firm.
3. Solid and firm.
4. Solid and firm.
5. Solid and firm.
6. Solid and firm.
7. Solid and firm.
8. Solid and firm.
9. Solid and firm.
10. Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
11. Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
12. Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
13. (dated) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
14. Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
15. (slang) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
16. (slang) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
17. Unquestionable; unequivocal.
18. Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
19. (slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
20. Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
21. (not-comparable) Fortis.
22. (not-comparable) Fortis.
23. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
24. Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
25. Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
26. (not-comparable) In a physical form, not digital.
27. (not-comparable) Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
28. Far, extreme.
29. Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
30. Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
31. Hardcore.

Adv

1. With much force or effort.
2. With difficulty.
3. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
4. Compactly.
5. (archaic) Near, close.

Noun

1. (countable) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
2. (countable) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
3. (slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.
4. (slang, uncountable) Hard labor.

Verb

To make hard, harden.

Opposite of

soft, low-alcohol, alcohol-free, non-alcoholic, easy, simple, straightforward, trite, bearable, flaccid

Synonyms

difficult

firm

tough

strong

solid

stiff

rough

harsh

rigid

arduous

severe

heavy

loud

troublesome

distressing

laborious

dry

strict

firmly

strongly

bad

👎

fast

inconvenient

cruel

vigorously

stern

congeal

stable

tight

strenuously

heavily

with difficulty

inflexible

sharp

unyielding

unripe

very

biting

severely

unfeeling

toilsome

expensive

💰

laboriously

painful

stony

stark

violent

unsympathetic

healthy

⚕️

steady

Translations

dur

duro

hart

duro

difficile

schwer

hard

schwierig

difficile

zwaar

moeilijk

dur

duro

difícil

difícil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɑːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hard

Inherited from Old English: heard

Cognate with German: hart

Cognate with Swedish: hård

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κρατύς

Cognate with Sanskrit: क्रतु

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎

In summary

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, Swedish hård (“hard”), Faroese, 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).

Sentences

A filing case is now hard to buy .

Vendors work hard to turn open standards into franchise standards .