Hard(superl.)
- 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.
Hard(superl.)
- Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Hard(superl.)
- Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Hard(superl.)
- Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
Hard(superl.)
- 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.
Hard(superl.)
- Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
Hard(superl.)
- Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Hard(superl.)
- Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
Hard(superl.)
- 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.
Hard(superl.)
- Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
Hard(superl.)
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Hard(superl.)
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
Hard(adv.)
- With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
Hard(adv.)
- With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
Hard(adv.)
- 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.
Hardness(n.)
- The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Hardness(n.)
- The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.
Hardness(n.)
- The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.
Hardnesses
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Hards(n. pl.)
- The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.