Related Words for hard knocks

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acacia
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Noun, Noun
accurate
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Adjective
active
/x
Adjective, Noun
acutely
x/x
Adverb
adversely
x/x
Adverb
affects
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Verb
afflicts
x/
Verb
aggressively
x/xx
Adverb
alcoholic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
ambitious
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Adjective
ankara
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Name
ardently
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Adverb
arduous
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Adjective
assiduous
x/x
Adjective
avid
/x
Adjective
awful
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Adjective, Adverb
awkward
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
backbreaking
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Adjective
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
badass
/x
Noun, Adjective
badly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
baffling
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Adjective, Noun
band
/
Noun, Verb
banging
/x
Noun, Adjective
batters
/x
Noun
beatings
/x
Noun
beats
/
Noun
big
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
binding
/x
Noun, Adjective
bitter
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
blows
/
Noun, Verb
blunt
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
bowling
/x
Noun
brick
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
brutal
/x
Adjective
brute
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
bully
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bummer
/x
Noun
bumps
/
Noun
burdensome
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Adjective
burnt
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Adjective
busy
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
calculating
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Adjective
calculative
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Adjective
callous
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
carefully
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Adverb
catchy
/x
Adjective
ceaselessly
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Adverb
challenges
/xx
Adverb
cheap
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
chimes
/
Adverb
chops
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Noun, Verb
claps
/
Verb, Noun
closely
/x
Adverb
coarse
/
Adjective
coercive
x/x
Adjective
cold
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
commitment
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Noun
committed
x/x
Adjective
complex
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
complicated
/xxx
Adjective
compulsory
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Adjective, Noun
conclusive
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Adjective
concrete
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
conniving
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Adjective
conscientiously
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Adverb
considerable
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Adjective, Noun
convertible
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Adjective, Noun
convincing
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Adjective, Noun
costly
/x
Adjective
cruel
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
damning
/x
Adjective, Noun
daunting
/x
Adjective, Noun
dedicated
/xxx
Adjective
deeply
/x
Adverb
delicate
/xx
Adjective, Noun
demanding
x/x
Adjective
desperately
/xxx
Adverb
difficile
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Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
difficulties
/xxx
Noun
diligent
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Adjective
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
disc
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Noun, Verb
disk
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Noun, Verb
distressing
x/x
Adjective
doggedly
/xx
Adverb
draconian
x/xx
Adjective
dry
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
dur
x
Noun, Adjective
dura
/x
Noun
duro
/x
Name
durum
/x
Noun
earnest
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
easiest
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Adjective
easily
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Adverb
effort
/x
Noun, Verb
effortful
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Adjective
elusive
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Adjective
embarrassing
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Adjective, Noun
endeavour
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Noun, Verb
energetically
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Adverb
enormous
x/x
Adjective
erect
x/
Adjective, Verb
evil
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
exacting
x/x
Adjective
excellent
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Adjective, Adverb
expensive
x/x
Adjective
extensive
x/x
Adjective
extremely
x/x
Adverb
factual
/xx
Adjective, Noun
far
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
fast
/
Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
fermented
x/x
Adjective
ferocious
x/x
Adjective
fervently
/xx
Adverb
fierce
/
Adjective, Adverb
fine
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
firm
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
fixed
/
Adjective
fond
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
force
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Noun, Verb
forceful
/x
Adjective
forcible
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Adjective
format
/x
Noun, Verb
formidable
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Adjective
fort
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Noun, Verb
fortress
/x
Noun, Verb
fractious
/x
Adjective
furiously
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Adverb
fussy
/x
Adjective, Noun
glassy
/x
Adjective, Noun
good
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
gothic
/x
Adjective, Name
grave
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
great
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
greatly
/x
Adverb
grim
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
gritty
/x
Adjective
grueling
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Adjective, Noun
gruelling
/x
Adjective, Noun
hardball
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
hardcore
//
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
hardened
/x
Adjective
harder
/x
Noun
hardly
/x
Adverb
hardness
/x
Noun
hardship
/x
Noun, Verb
hardware
/x
Noun
hardwood
/x
Noun, Adjective
hardworking
/xx
Adjective
harm
/
Noun, Verb
harsh
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
harte
/
Name
hawkish
/x
Adjective
heartbreaking
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Noun, Adjective
heartily
/xx
Adverb
heartless
/x
Adjective
heavily
/xx
Adverb
heavy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
hectic
/x
Adjective, Noun
herculean
x/xx
Adjective
herd
/
Noun, Verb
high
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
highly
/x
Adverb
hits
/
Adverb
horny
/x
Adjective
hot
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
huge
/
Adjective
hurt
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
hustle
/x
Noun, Verb
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
impossible
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Adjective, Noun
impractical
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Adjective
improperly
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Adverb
inconvenient
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
industrious
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Adjective
inflexible
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Adjective
insensitive
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Adjective
intemperate
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Adjective, Verb
intense
x/
Adjective
intensive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
intractable
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Adjective
ironclad
/xx
Adjective, Noun
irrefutable
xx/xx
Adjective
jolts
/
Noun, Verb
keen
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
knock
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Verb, Noun
knockout
/x
Noun, Adjective
knotty
/x
Adjective
laborious
x/xx
Adjective
large
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
lashes
/x
Adverb
last
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
lightly
/x
Adverb
little
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
long
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
lot
/
Noun, Verb
loud
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
major
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
mal
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Noun
manly
/x
Adjective, Name
many
/x
Adjective, Noun
massive
/x
Adjective, Noun
material
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
mercilessly
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Adverb
metal
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
moves
/
Noun
much
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
nail
/
Noun, Verb
nasty
/x
Adjective, Noun
near
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
nip
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
not
/
Adverb, Noun
onerous
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Adjective
ossified
/xx
Adjective
outspoken
//x
Adjective
painful
/x
Adjective
painstaking
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Noun, Adjective
pans
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Noun
paper
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
passionately
/xxx
Adverb
paved
/
Adjective
penal
/x
Adjective
penalty
/xx
Noun
persevering
xx/x
Noun, Adjective
persistently
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Adverb
petrified
/xx
Adjective
petrous
xx
Adjective
physical
/xx
Adjective, Noun
picky
/x
Adjective, Noun
poor
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
poorly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
powerful
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
predefined
xx/
Adjective
print
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
printable
/xx
Adjective, Noun
problematic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
problematical
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Adjective
punches
/x
Noun, Verb
punishing
/xx
Adjective, Noun
queer
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
quick
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
quite
/
Adverb, Noun
raps
/
Noun, Verb
rare
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
raw
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
real
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
reddish
/x
Adjective, Noun
relentless
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Adjective
reliable
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Adjective, Noun
renders
/x
Verb
resolutely
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Adverb
rigid
/x
Adjective, Noun
rigorous
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Adjective
rigour
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Noun
robust
x/
Adjective
rocks
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Noun
rocky
/x
Adjective, Name
rough
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
roundly
/x
Adverb
rude
/
Adjective
rugged
/x
Adjective
ruthless
/x
Adjective
sad
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
savage
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
scarcely
/x
Adverb
scheming
/x
Adjective, Noun
school
/
Noun, Verb
scrape
/
Verb, Noun
sends
/
Verb
serious
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
seriously
/xxx
Adverb
set
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
severe
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Adjective, Noun
shakes
/
Noun
sharp
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
short
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
shrewd
/
Adjective
significant
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
sincerely
x/x
Adverb
slams
/
Verb, Noun
slaps
/
Noun
slow
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
smart
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
snap
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
snorts
/
Verb, Noun
soft
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
solid
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
sorely
/x
Adverb
soured
/x
Adjective
specific
x/x
Adjective, Noun
stabs
/
Noun
stale
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
stark
/
Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb
steely
/x
Adjective, Noun
stern
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
sticky
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
stiff
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
stony
/x
Noun, Adjective
strength
/
Noun, Verb
strenuous
/xx
Adjective
stressful
/x
Adjective
strict
/
Adjective
strident
/x
Adjective, Noun
strikes
/
Noun
stringent
/x
Adjective
strokes
/
Noun
strong
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
stubborn
/x
Adjective, Noun
sure
/
Adjective, Adverb
swings
/
Adverb
tall
/
Adjective, Noun
tangible
/xx
Adjective, Noun
tapping
/x
Noun
tenacious
x/x
Adjective
terrible
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
thing
/
Noun, Verb
thorny
/x
Adjective
thorough
/x
Adjective, Noun
thud
/
Noun, Verb
thumps
/
Verb
ticklish
/xx
Adjective
tight
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
tireless
/xx
Adjective
tiresome
/xx
Adjective
tortuous
/xx
Adjective
tough
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
tricky
/x
Adjective
trouble
/x
Noun, Verb
troublesome
/xx
Adjective
trying
/x
Adjective, Noun
unabated
xx/x
Adjective
unclear
x/
Adjective, Verb
uncomfortable
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Adjective
uncompromising
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Adjective
uneasy
x/x
Adjective
unenviable
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Adjective
uninteresting
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Adjective
unkind
x/
Adjective
unlikely
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun
untiring
x/x
Adjective
uphill
//
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
urgently
/xx
Adverb
vehemently
/xxx
Adverb
velar
x/
Adjective, Noun
version
/x
Noun, Verb
very
/x
Adverb, Adjective
vexed
/
Adjective
vicious
/x
Adjective, Noun
vigorous
/xx
Adjective
violent
/xx
Adjective, Verb, Noun
vitreous
/xx
Adjective, Noun
warmly
/x
Adverb
weighty
/x
Adjective
well
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb
woeful
/x
Adjective
wood
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
woody
/x
Noun, Adjective
work
/
Noun, Verb
wrong
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb