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hard

adj
/hɑːd/UK/hɑɹd/US

Etymology

From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hard (“hard”), West Frisian hurd (“hard”), Alemannic German hert (“hard”), Bavarian hoat (“hard”), Central Franconian haat (“hard”), Dutch hard (“hard”), German hart (“hard”), Luxembourgish haart (“hard”), Danish, Swedish hård (“hard”), Faroese, Icelandic harður (“hard”), Norwegian Bokmål hard (“hard”), Norwegian Nynorsk hard, hard’u (“hard”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus, “hard”), Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús, “strong, mighty”), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu, “power, might, ability”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).

  1. derived from *harduz✻
  2. derived from hardi

Definitions

  1. Solid and firm.

    • Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.

  2. Having a severe property

    Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.

    • a hard problem;  a hard question;  a hard topic
    • The stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.

  3. Unquestionable

    Unquestionable; unequivocal.

    • hard evidence;  a hard requirement
    • […]for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.
    • Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!
  4. ›+ 23 more definitions

    1. Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.

      • At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.

    2. Sexually aroused

      Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.

      • I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.

    3. Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.

    4. Fortis.

      • There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".

    5. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.

      • The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.

    6. In a physical form, not digital.

      • a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive

    7. Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.

      • a hard reboot or reset

    8. Far, extreme.

      • hard right, hard left

    9. Of silk

      Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.

    10. Of a market

      Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.

      • Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]

    11. Hardcore.

    12. With much force or effort.

      • He hit the puck hard up the ice.
      • They worked hard all week.
      • The recession hit them especially hard.

    13. With difficulty.

      • His degree was hard earned.

    14. So as to raise difficulties.

      • The question is hard set.

    15. Compactly.

      • The lake had finally frozen hard.

    16. Near, close.

      • At the intersection, bear hard left.
      • The King your brother is now hard at hand, / Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders / Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands / And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
      • […]whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

    17. A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.

      • The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]
      • He brought the dinghy up to the careening hard. Two or three boats lay on their sides on the sloping roadway, but there was no sign of life.

    18. A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.

    19. Crack cocaine.

    20. Hard labor.

      • The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.

    21. To make hard, harden.

      • He knows vain men: he sees their harts that hard them In Guiles and Wiles, and will not hee regard them?

    22. A surname.

    23. An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting

      An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: heartfelt, animated, required, difficult.

      • Unlike achievable and realistic goals that leave you stuck in the status-quo, HARD Goals light up the brain and encourage great performance.

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Derived

an old dog for a hard road, between a rock and a hard place, blow-hard, bone hard, bone-hard, cold hard cash, die-hard, do the hard yards, drive a hard bargain, dumb hard, fall on hard times, find out the hard way, forhard, give someone a hard time, go hard, go hard or go home, go hard with someone, hard act to follow, hard-and-fast, hard and fast, hard-arse, hard as a rock, hard as brazil, hard as Chinese algebra, hard as iron, hard ask, hard as nails, hard-ass, hard-assed, hard-assery, hard as the nether millstone, hard atheism, hard atheist, hard at work, hardback, hardbacked, hardbag, hardbake, hardball, hardbeam · +375 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hard. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hard02difficulty03achievement04shield05rock06provides07provide08money

A definitional loop anchored at hard. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at hard

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA