hard

hard has 42 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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.
• superl.. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
• superl.. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
• superl.. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
• 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.
• superl.. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
• superl.. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
• superl.. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
• 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.
• superl.. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
• superl.. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
• superl.. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.