duro

Meaning

Adj

1. hard
2. firm, solid
3. hard, difficult
4. tough, resilient, strong
5. harsh, cruel, severe
6. unbearable, heavy
7. rude, offensive
8. mean, stingy, ungenerous
9. rough, uncouth
10. stiff, rigid
11. hard, erect
12. hard-boiled
13. (slang) hardcore
14. hardcore
15. (Mexico) drunk, tipsy

Noun

1. (masculine) hardball (i.e. a no-nonsense attitude)
2. (Spain,colloquial,historical,masculine) coin worth 5 pesetas

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of durar

Concepts

hard

tough

rough

difficult

stiff

hardcore

solid

callous

stale

hard-boiled

harsh

stern

strong

adamant

dour

arduous

cruel

firm

severe

stark

tight

unkind

resistant

pachydermatous

gruelling

heartless

grim

inconvenient

durable

unmoved

punish’

hard-hearted

obdurate

bad

rude

sharp

steely

stony

thick

unfeeling

consistent

very hard

resistent

greedy

mean

miserly

brave

healthy

barren

infertile

fast

rigid

rigorous

strict

stringent

chewy

awkward

embarrassing

sticky

unenviable

rocky

backbreaking

grueling

heavy

laborious

operose

punishing

toilsome

unyielding

hardhearted

stifling

sulfurous

sulphurous

sultry

austere

forbidding

indurate

knockout

fibrous

sinewy

stringy

unchewable

toughened

rugged

asperous

brutal

stonyhearted

break

cut

hardness

Hyphenated as

du‧ro

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈduɾo/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).