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
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～ (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
hardcover
— Adjective
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～ having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"
case-hardened
— Adjective
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～ used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
hardened
— Adjective
– English
～ made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
hardened
— Adjective
– English
～ converted to solid form (as concrete)
hardened
— Adjective
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～ protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
hardened
— Adjective
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～ made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
hardened
— Adjective
– English
～ used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
hardfisted
— Adjective
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～ unwilling to part with money
hardheaded
— Adjective
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～ guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
hardheaded
— Adjective
– English
～ unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack