hard
— Adjective
– English
～ dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
hard-baked
— Adjective
– English
～ baked until hard
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ resisting weight or pressure
hard-bitten
— Adjective
– English
～ tough and callous by virtue of experience
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
hard-core
— Adjective
– English
～ stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts"
hard
— Adjective
– English
～ (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
hard-boiled
— Adjective
– English
～ (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid
hard copy
— Noun
– English
～ (computer science) matter that is held in a computer and is typed or printed on paper; "he ran off a hard copy of the report"
hard drink
— Noun
– English
～ an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
hard drug
— Noun
– English
～ a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction
hard core
— Noun
– English
～ the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement
hard currency
— Noun
– English
～ a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value; "the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements"; "Germany once had a solid economy, good fiscal and monetary policies, and a hard currency"
hard drive
— Noun
– English
～ computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it
hard currency
— Noun
– English
～ money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash"
hard beech
— Noun
– English
～ tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood