Meaning of hard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. difficult, hard, tough, challenging, rough, tricky, trying, arduous, testing
2. Solid and firm.
3. An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: heartfelt, animated, required, difficult.
   mnemonic, not-comparable
4. unlikely (i.e. improbable)
5. Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
6. awkward (e.g. situation or position)
7. Strong.
8. rocky, bumpy (e.g. start, road)
9. Containing alcohol.
10. Very acidic or tannic.
11. High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
12. Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
13. Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
14. Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
15. Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
16. Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
17. Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
18. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
19. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
    dated
20. Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
21. Tough, muscular, badass.
    slang
22. Excellent, impressive.
    slang
23. Unquestionable; unequivocal.
24. Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
25. Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
    slang, vulgar
26. Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
27. Fortis.
    not-comparable
28. Plosive.
    not-comparable
29. Unvoiced.
    not-comparable
30. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
31. Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
32. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
33. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
34. In a physical form, not digital.
    not-comparable
35. Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
    not-comparable
36. Far, extreme.
37. Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
38. Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
39. Hardcore.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.”

“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 […].”

“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.”

“hard X-rays”

“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.”

“It’s been said that, for nonstellar teachers at least, the hardest things to teach are the things one loves most.”

“a hard life”

“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.”

“The stag was too hard for the horse.”

“a power which will be always too hard for them”

“a hard site”

“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.”

“This song goes hard.”

“This guy always has the hardest fits.”

“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.”

“At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.”

“I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.”

“There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".”

“Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.”

“The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.”

“a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive”

“a hard reboot or reset”

“hard right, hard left”

“Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]”

“Unlike achievable and realistic goals that leave you stuck in the status-quo, HARD Goals light up the brain and encourage great performance.”

CEFR level