Adjectives starting with H

• 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-and-fast — Adjective – English ～ (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules"
• hardback — Adjective – English ～ having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"
• hardbacked — Adjective – English ～ having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"
• hardbound — Adjective – English ～ having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"
• hardcore — Adjective – English ～ extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography"
• hardcore — Adjective – English ～ intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters"
• hardcover — Adjective – English ～ having a hard back or cover; "hardback books"
• 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 – English ～ protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"
• hardened — Adjective – English ～ 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 – English ～ unwilling to part with money
• hardheaded — Adjective – English ～ 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
• hardhearted — Adjective – English ～ lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
• hardhearted — Adjective – English ～ devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
• hardline — Adjective – English ～ firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"

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