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hard
Synonyms and Antonyms of hard
- a hard man, who never had a kind word for anyone
affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pachydermatous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony (also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic
boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncaring, unfriendly, unloving, unthinking
grim, hard-bitten, harsh, heavy-handed, ironfisted, ironhanded, jackbooted, knock-down, drag-out (or knock-down-and-drag-out), oppressive, rough, rough-and-tumble, severe, sledgehammer, stern, tough, ungentle
abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, virulent
barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, evil-minded, savage, vicious
- clearing land is hard work
- a hard exam to pass
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- they were forced to import sheep of a harder stock, one that could thrive in the harsh climate
flinty, leathery, resilient, stalwart
durable, enduring, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, lasting, permanent, stable, staunch (also stanch), staying, tenacious, unyielding
flourishing, prospering, thriving
fit, fortified, hale, healthy, husky, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sound, strapping, virile
- do you have any hard evidence that this was once the site of a Native American village?
- the hard life of a migrant farm worker
- a carpet that withstood years of hard wear
- a hard disciplinarian who is quick to punish the tiniest violation of the rules
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
- hard candies
- fell on the hard floor and bruised her arm
- there isnʼt always a hard line between right and wrong
certain, determinate, final, firm, fixed, flat, frozen, hard-and-fast, inexpugnable, set, settled, stable
- maintained hard feelings toward those who had cheated him
caring, forgiving, gentle, kind, kindhearted, loving, sweet, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted
- a woman with a hard will who never budged from her chosen path
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching
firm, hard-line, hard-shell (or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, strict
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous
contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
- that newscast is strictly devoted to hard news, as the producers prefer to leave the gossip to others
hypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic)
apocryphal, unauthentic, undocumented
chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantastic (also fantastical), imaginary, imagined, invented, legendary, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), pretend
Synonym Discussion of hard
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- farming is hard work
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- the difficult ascent of the mountain
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- the arduous task of rebuilding
hard
Synonyms and Antonyms of hard
- we took a much-needed break after working hard all week
- a hard-won victory
actively, animatedly, briskly, busily, dynamically, energetically, feverishly, spiritedly, vehemently, vigorously, zealously
continuously, ploddingly, steadfastly, steadily, unabatedly, unrelentingly, unremittingly
ardently, attentively, conscientiously, earnestly, exhaustively, meticulously, painstakingly, seriously, thoroughly
indefatigably, tirelessly, unflaggingly, untiringly, wearilessly
- took the news of their grandfatherʼs death hard
abjectly, cheerlessly, crestfallenly, dejectedly, despairingly, despondently, disconsolately, dispiritedly, downheartedly, low-spiritedly
blackly, darkly, dismally, distressfully, distressingly, dourly, drearily, forlornly, gloomily, glumly, joylessly, mirthlessly, miserably, morosely, pessimistically, somberly, sullenly
acutely, harshly, keenly, piercingly, poignantly, severely, sharply
- hit the ball hard, causing it to soar out of bounds
- the wind blew hard all day
fiercely, hammer and tongs, robustly, roughshod, sharply, vehemently, violently
actively, animatedly, briskly, crisply, eagerly, gamely, heartily, lustily, snappily, spiritedly, spunkily, vivaciously
decidedly, determinedly, directly, emphatically, fast, fixedly, intensively, intently, purposefully, resolutely, rigidly, smartly, solidly, soundly, squarely, steadfastly, steadily, sturdily, surely
- the groom stood hard by, ready to help, as the lady mounted the skittish horse
hereabouts (or hereabout), hereaway (or hereaways) [dialect], thereabouts (also thereabout)
- the dog had been treated hard by his previous owner
callously, cold-bloodedly, hard-heartedly, heartlessly, inhumanely, inhumanly, insensately, insensitively, mercilessly, obdurately, pitilessly, ruthlessly, tyrannically, uncharitably, unfeelingly, unmercifully, unsparingly
abusively, brutishly, savagely, viciously
aggressively, assertively, decidedly, determinedly, firmly, grimly, gruffly, resolutely, strongly, toughly
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