Synonyms for Hard:

• adj.

  •Herculean (adjective)
  • gigantic.
  •actual (adjective)
  • in dubitable,
  • in disputable,
  • most certain,
  • de finite,
  • more substantive,
  • more concrete,
  • un-questionable,
  • honest injun,
  • harder,
  • un questionable,
  • honest god,
  • de-finite,
  • un-deniable,
  • in-dubitable,
  • un deniable,
  • most substantive,
  • in-disputable.
  •adverse (adjective)
  • distressful,
  • grievous,
  • difficult,
  • inauspicious,
  • unlucky,
  • detrimental,
  • catastrophic,
  • perilous,
  • tragic,
  • unpropitious,
  • unfriendly,
  • disastrous,
  • antipathetic,
  • unfavorable,
  • burdensome,
  • calamitous,
  • woeful,
  • untoward,
  • unfortunate,
  • adverse,
  • opposing,
  • miserable.
  •alcoholic (adjective)
  • more brewed,
  • more sprituous,
  • more inebriating,
  • most vinous,
  • most inebriating,
  • more fermented,
  • most brewed,
  • most sprituous,
  • dis tilled,
  • most distilled,
  • dis-tilled,
  • more vinous,
  • most inebriant,
  • most fermented,
  • more distilled,
  • more inebriant.
  •all (adjective)
  • hard.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • impressive,
  • grandiose,
  • visionary,
  • loftier,
  • lofty.
  •austere (adjective)
  • un relenting,
  • forbidding,
  • un-relenting,
  • formal,
  • somber.
  •bare (adjective)
  • more unornamented,
  • unembellished,
  • un ornamented,
  • un embellished,
  • meager,
  • most unornamented,
  • un-embellished,
  • un-ornamented.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis tasteful,
  • un-palatable,
  • un pleasant,
  • dis agreeable,
  • in temperate,
  • dis pleasing,
  • in-temperate,
  • galling,
  • un palatable,
  • un-pleasant,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • dis-tasteful.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • dis-heartening,
  • funereal,
  • gloomy,
  • most disheartening,
  • un promising,
  • more disheartening,
  • drearest,
  • hopeless,
  • more unpromising,
  • drearer,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-promising,
  • sad,
  • dis heartening.
  •bony (adjective)
  • osseous,
  • ossified,
  • anatomical.
  •brassy (adjective)
  • in-solent,
  • insolent,
  • jarring,
  • un abashed,
  • un-blushing,
  • over bold,
  • most overbold,
  • shameless,
  • over-bold,
  • more overbold,
  • un-abashed,
  • un blushing,
  • loudmouthed,
  • in solent.
  •brutal (adjective)
  • inhuman,
  • gruff.
  •callous (adjective)
  • more casehardened,
  • more indurated,
  • un-concerned,
  • un bending,
  • most indurated,
  • in sensible,
  • in sentient,
  • thickskinned,
  • in-sensible,
  • un-responsive,
  • hard bitten,
  • more case hardened,
  • in-sensate,
  • hard boiled,
  • un caring,
  • case hardened,
  • more toughened,
  • more inured,
  • stubborn,
  • in-sentient,
  • un affected,
  • cold blooded,
  • un concerned,
  • most case hardened,
  • most toughened,
  • un-caring,
  • impassive,
  • most casehardened,
  • un responsive,
  • in-different,
  • un-affected,
  • most case-hardened,
  • un-susceptible,
  • un susceptible,
  • un impressionable,
  • most inured,
  • in different,
  • un-impressionable,
  • in sensate,
  • thick skinned,
  • more case-hardened,
  • un-bending.
  •certain (adjective)
  • unassailable.
  •cold-hearted (adjective)
  • un kind,
  • un friendliest,
  • most unloving,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-emotional,
  • un-loving,
  • un kindest,
  • un-kinder,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • un-friendlier,
  • most stony hearted,
  • un emotional,
  • hard hearted,
  • most stony-hearted,
  • un friendly,
  • more stony-hearted,
  • more stony hearted,
  • un kinder,
  • un-kindest,
  • most hard hearted,
  • more unloving,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • cold hearted,
  • un loving,
  • un-kind,
  • un-friendly,
  • more hard hearted,
  • un-friendliest.
  •compact (adjective)
  • most appressed,
  • more bunched,
  • more appressed,
  • most bunched,
  • most compressed,
  • more compressed.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • hi-tech,
  • mega factor,
  • involved,
  • gasser,
  • hi tech,
  • wheels within wheels.
  •concentrated (adjective)
  • vehement,
  • allout,
  • all out.
  •contemptuous (adjective)
  • derisory,
  • dog it,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • coldshoulder.
  •cruel (adjective)
  • more demoniac,
  • in-humane,
  • un natural,
  • re-vengeful,
  • de-generate,
  • most brutish,
  • in humane,
  • most demoniac,
  • de generate,
  • re vengeful,
  • un-natural,
  • more brutish,
  • more evil.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • most well-done,
  • crispier,
  • more well baked,
  • more welldone,
  • well-baked,
  • welldone,
  • most welldone,
  • well-done,
  • more well-done,
  • well baked,
  • more well done,
  • most well baked,
  • wellbaked,
  • most well done,
  • most wellbaked,
  • more well-baked,
  • most well-baked,
  • crispiest,
  • more wellbaked,
  • well done.
  •deep (adjective)
  • low-toned,
  • extreme,
  • full-toned,
  • baritone,
  • bass.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • importunate,
  • most backbreaker,
  • more backbreaker.
  •dense (adjective)
  • impenetrable.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • strenuous,
  • cantankerous,
  • contrary,
  • laborious,
  • wearisome,
  • stiff,
  • tight,
  • bothersome,
  • fussy,
  • tricky,
  • cumbersome,
  • oppressive,
  • wearying,
  • puzzling,
  • ticklish,
  • finicky,
  • severe,
  • complex,
  • grinding,
  • wearing.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • fore boding,
  • more agitating,
  • impeding,
  • most impeding,
  • most discommoding,
  • most discomposing,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most disconcerting,
  • embarrassing,
  • more foreboding,
  • most agitating,
  • fore-boding,
  • more discomposing,
  • more impeding,
  • more troubling,
  • de-pressing,
  • more discommoding,
  • de pressing,
  • troubling,
  • dis concerting,
  • most troubling,
  • most foreboding,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis-concerting,
  • dis composing.
  •dour (adjective)
  • most crabbed.
  •down-to-earth (adjective)
  • most unfantastic,
  • plainspoken,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • un sentimental,
  • un-idealistic,
  • un fantastic,
  • most unsentimental,
  • more unfantastic,
  • un idealistic,
  • most unidealistic,
  • un-fantastic,
  • un-sentimental,
  • more unidealistic,
  • more unsentimental.
  •dry (adjective)
  • rainless,
  • evaporated,
  • thirsty,
  • Unmoistened,
  • not irrigated,
  • Droughty,
  • waterless,
  • desiccant,
  • Moistureless,
  • sapless,
  • dried up,
  • searer,
  • dried-up,
  • juiceless.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • hyper critical,
  • ex acting,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more nit-picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • nit picking,
  • more nit picking,
  • by book,
  • hyper-critical,
  • most nit picking.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • super incumbent,
  • superincumbent,
  • super-incumbent,
  • more superincumbent,
  • most superincumbent.
  •factual (adjective)
  • more sureenough,
  • more card carrying,
  • more true to life,
  • most cardcarrying,
  • un-adorned,
  • un doubted,
  • un-doubted,
  • more cardcarrying,
  • cardcarrying,
  • most sure-enough,
  • ex act,
  • card carrying,
  • most card carrying,
  • on level,
  • more sure-enough,
  • most sure enough,
  • righteous,
  • unadorned,
  • ex-act,
  • more true-to-life,
  • straight from horse mouth,
  • straight from horses mouth,
  • most card-carrying,
  • un adorned,
  • sureenough,
  • more card-carrying,
  • most true to life,
  • more sure enough,
  • most sureenough,
  • un biased,
  • most true-to-life.
  •firm (adjective)
  • most close grained,
  • more nonporous,
  • more fine-grained,
  • more jelled,
  • most fine grained,
  • non-porous,
  • most closegrained,
  • most solidified,
  • finegrained,
  • most fine-grained,
  • more congealed,
  • more finegrained,
  • closegrained,
  • more fine grained,
  • more solidified,
  • in-elastic,
  • in elastic,
  • most close-grained,
  • non porous,
  • more close-grained,
  • more close grained,
  • more closegrained,
  • close grained,
  • most congealed,
  • most nonporous,
  • most jelled,
  • fine grained,
  • most finegrained.
  •flinty (adjective)
  • steely,
  • flinty.
  •formidable (adjective)
  • most all powerful,
  • staggering,
  • allpowerful,
  • more allpowerful,
  • most murder,
  • over-powering,
  • most allpowerful,
  • puissant,
  • more all powerful,
  • most ballbuster,
  • dis maying,
  • more ballbuster,
  • over powering,
  • more dismaying,
  • most all-powerful,
  • dis-maying,
  • more murder,
  • mightiest,
  • more all-powerful,
  • most dismaying.
  •genuine (adjective)
  • in flesh,
  • most carat,
  • most honest-to-goodness,
  • more carat,
  • honest-to-goodness,
  • more -carat,
  • most certified,
  • un-impeachable,
  • honest to goodness,
  • real stuff,
  • more honest-to-goodness,
  • un alloyed,
  • more authenticated,
  • more honest to goodness,
  • most unalloyed,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un adulterated,
  • un-alloyed,
  • un-varnished,
  • more unalloyed,
  • most authenticated,
  • most -carat,
  • un varnished,
  • more certified,
  • in the flesh,
  • most honest to goodness,
  • un impeachable.
  •grueling (adjective)
  • most chastening,
  • more crushing,
  • more chastening,
  • most crushing,
  • most racking,
  • more racking.
  •hard (adjective)
  • solid.
  •hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
  • more tough-nut,
  • most tough nut,
  • hard nosed,
  • more toughnut,
  • in tractable,
  • re solute,
  • more tough nut,
  • toughnut,
  • most toughnut,
  • in-tractable,
  • re-solute.
  •hardheaded (adjective)
  • most hardheaded,
  • level headed.
  •hardhearted (adjective)
  • in-tolerant,
  • in tolerant.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • more cussed,
  • more screeching,
  • most creaking,
  • most cussed,
  • dis sonant,
  • in-compatible,
  • un-gracious,
  • most unmelodious,
  • more jangling,
  • un melodious,
  • more creaking,
  • un even,
  • most out of tune,
  • off key,
  • most screeching,
  • dis-courteous,
  • in compatible,
  • un-melodious,
  • more tuneless,
  • most out-of-key,
  • more out of key,
  • more unlevel,
  • un-musical,
  • more stridulous,
  • out of key,
  • most out of key,
  • dis agreeing,
  • most stridulous,
  • most tuneless,
  • un-even,
  • hardshell,
  • more clashing,
  • most asperous,
  • more out-of-tune,
  • most jangling,
  • most unlevel,
  • dis courteous,
  • most out-of-tune,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • more caterwauling,
  • dis-sonant,
  • unmusical,
  • most caterwauling,
  • un-level,
  • more asperous,
  • more out of tune,
  • more out-of-key,
  • un musical,
  • most clashing,
  • un level,
  • un gracious,
  • offkey,
  • more unmelodious.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • in-tolerable,
  • Heightened,
  • Acroamatic,
  • more acroamatic,
  • most acroamatic,
  • in tolerable.
  •heightened (adjective)
  • ter,
  • te.
  •impenetrable (adjective)
  • hermetic,
  • in violable,
  • more bulletproof,
  • most unpiercable,
  • more unpiercable,
  • most bulletproof,
  • in-violable.
  •inalterable (adjective)
  • in-alterable,
  • in alterable.
  •inarguable (adjective)
  • confirmable,
  • having down pat,
  • establishable.
  •incompressible (adjective)
  • in-compressible,
  • in compressible.
  •incontestable (adjective)
  • in-contestable,
  • in contestable.
  •indigestible (adjective)
  • uneatable.
  •inexorable (adjective)
  • like death taxes,
  • bound determined,
  • in escapable,
  • un movable,
  • un-compromising,
  • un appeasable,
  • single minded,
  • in exorable,
  • un compromising,
  • set stone,
  • un-appeasable,
  • un-movable,
  • in-escapable,
  • in-exorable.
  •inflexible (adjective)
  • set in ones ways,
  • more impliable,
  • un-adaptable,
  • most unadaptable,
  • Unswayable,
  • un compliant,
  • set one ways,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • un-swayable,
  • stand ones ground,
  • non flexible,
  • most immalleable,
  • more nonflexible,
  • most starched,
  • un adaptable,
  • set in ways,
  • more starched,
  • un-compliant,
  • most unswayable,
  • more immalleable,
  • stand one ground,
  • set one's ways,
  • set ways,
  • Immalleable,
  • most nonflexible,
  • set in one ways,
  • set ones ways,
  • un swayable,
  • most impliable,
  • un-changeable,
  • stand ground,
  • hard and fast,
  • un changeable,
  • in-flexible,
  • in flexible,
  • more unadaptable,
  • more unswayable,
  • non-flexible,
  • taut.
  •insensitive (adjective)
  • passionless,
  • apathetic,
  • cold-blooded,
  • indifferent,
  • insusceptible,
  • feelingless,
  • stony,
  • aloof,
  • dispassionate,
  • unconcerned,
  • cool,
  • nonchalant,
  • Imperceptive,
  • numb,
  • passive,
  • detached,
  • objective,
  • blunt,
  • emotionless,
  • unemotional.
  •intense (adjective)
  • in-tensest,
  • more all consuming,
  • most all-consuming,
  • more intensified,
  • un duer,
  • un-duest,
  • in-tense,
  • most intensified,
  • most allconsuming,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • un-due,
  • more allconsuming,
  • allconsuming,
  • in-tenser,
  • un due,
  • un duest,
  • in tense,
  • in tensest,
  • all consuming,
  • more all-consuming,
  • most all consuming,
  • in tenser,
  • un-duer.
  •intensive (adjective)
  • out and out,
  • in depth,
  • speeded-up,
  • speeded up,
  • INDEPTH.
  •intoxicating (adjective)
  • alcoholic.
  •intricate (adjective)
  • more high tech,
  • hightech,
  • most high-tech,
  • most daedal,
  • more daedal,
  • most hightech,
  • more hightech,
  • tangled,
  • more high-tech,
  • most high tech.
  •knockabout (adjective)
  • rough and tumble,
  • knockabout.
  •knotty (adjective)
  • maziest,
  • more ramified,
  • mystifying,
  • more nodulous,
  • reticular,
  • most nodulous,
  • mazier,
  • most reticular,
  • more reticular,
  • Nodulous,
  • most ramified.
  •labored (adjective)
  • over done.
  •mean (adjective)
  • snide,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • toucher,
  • the lowest,
  • low-down and dirty,
  • low-down dirty,
  • liverish.
  •merciless (adjective)
  • most iron-fisted,
  • having killer instinct,
  • uncalledfor,
  • most iron fisted,
  • more ironfisted,
  • more iron fisted,
  • un flinching,
  • most ironfisted,
  • un-flinching,
  • dog eat dog,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • iron fisted.
  •metallic (adjective)
  • geologic,
  • fusible,
  • tinny,
  • silvery,
  • mineral,
  • metallurgic,
  • stannic,
  • ORY.
  •moistureless (adjective)
  • bonedry.
  •no-nonsense (adjective)
  • nononsense,
  • no nonsense.
  •obdurate (adjective)
  • tough nut crack,
  • more indurate,
  • un-shakable,
  • stiffnecked,
  • stiff necked,
  • most bullhead,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • most unimpressible,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • un-impressible,
  • un impressible,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • un shakable,
  • most indurate,
  • most stiff necked,
  • un-cooperative,
  • more bullhead,
  • un cooperative,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • more unimpressible,
  • more stiff necked.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • self-willed,
  • obstinate,
  • strong-minded,
  • opinionated,
  • opinionative.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • more plodding,
  • more headache,
  • over taxing,
  • most overtaxing,
  • more overtaxing,
  • over-taxing,
  • most headache,
  • more embittering,
  • most embittering,
  • most plodding.
  •operose (adjective)
  • Operose.
  •ossified (adjective)
  • fossilized,
  • most fossilized,
  • more fossilized.
  •painful (adjective)
  • in-flamed,
  • extremely bad,
  • in flamed,
  • more hurting,
  • smarting,
  • more saddening,
  • most throbbing,
  • more throbbing,
  • most saddening.
  •positive (adjective)
  • clear cut.
  •pragmatical (adjective)
  • toughminded,
  • tough minded.
  •profound (adjective)
  • far reaching,
  • deepseated,
  • ex tensive,
  • farreaching,
  • deep seated,
  • pro found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • mis-leading,
  • mis leading,
  • un accountable,
  • be wildering,
  • sur-prising,
  • sur prising,
  • un-clearest,
  • in-explicable,
  • in comprehensible,
  • un fathomable,
  • in explicable,
  • be-wildering,
  • un-clear,
  • most bewildering,
  • un clearest,
  • un clear,
  • more bewildering.
  •rancorous (adjective)
  • more begruding,
  • most grudging,
  • most begruding,
  • more grudging.
  •raw (adjective)
  • un baked,
  • more unpasteurized,
  • most ungraded,
  • most roughhewn,
  • un stained,
  • most untreated,
  • un ripe,
  • more rough-hewn,
  • rough-hewn,
  • un-cooked,
  • untreated,
  • unprocessed,
  • rough hewn,
  • un-prepared,
  • most unpasteurized,
  • un graded,
  • un-graded,
  • more rough hewn,
  • un riper,
  • un fried,
  • Unfashioned,
  • most undercooked,
  • unfried,
  • un frieder,
  • un-sorted,
  • un fashioned,
  • un sorted,
  • un-formed,
  • un-riper,
  • most unsorted,
  • under done,
  • under cooked,
  • un-fried,
  • un prepared,
  • un-pasteurized,
  • un dressed,
  • un refined,
  • under-done,
  • un-friedest,
  • un treated,
  • more unsorted,
  • un pasteurized,
  • un formed,
  • under-cooked,
  • un processed,
  • un cooked,
  • most unfashioned,
  • most unbaked,
  • un-refined,
  • un-frieder,
  • un-baked,
  • un-stained,
  • more unfashioned,
  • more unbaked,
  • more roughhewn,
  • un-treated,
  • un-processed,
  • un-fashioned,
  • un-ripest,
  • uncooked,
  • unfrieder,
  • more untreated,
  • more undercooked,
  • un friedest,
  • most rough hewn,
  • more ungraded,
  • un-ripe,
  • most rough-hewn,
  • un-dressed,
  • unfriedest,
  • un ripest.
  •recondite (adjective)
  • orphic,
  • little known,
  • little-known.
  •relentless (adjective)
  • more unstoppable,
  • more undeviating,
  • most hang tough,
  • more hangtough,
  • un deviating,
  • un-deviating,
  • un-stoppable,
  • stop at nothing,
  • more hang-tough,
  • most hangtough,
  • un stoppable,
  • most unstoppable,
  • stop nothing,
  • unstoppable,
  • more hang tough,
  • hangtough,
  • most hang-tough,
  • most undeviating.
  •remorseless (adjective)
  • most unregenerate,
  • remorseless,
  • more uncontrite,
  • un repenting,
  • un-remitting,
  • un regenerate,
  • un contrite,
  • more unregenerate,
  • un remitting,
  • most unrepenting,
  • un-contrite,
  • un-repenting,
  • more unrepenting,
  • most uncontrite.
  •resentful (adjective)
  • anti,
  • ill-disposed,
  • unwelcoming,
  • Oppugnant.
  •rigid (adjective)
  • un breakable,
  • unbreakable,
  • in compliant,
  • more unpermissive,
  • un-changing,
  • un-permissive,
  • un moving,
  • hardline,
  • in-variable,
  • un permissive,
  • in variable,
  • most chiseled,
  • un-moving,
  • most unpermissive,
  • un changing,
  • in-compliant,
  • strait laced,
  • unpermissive,
  • more chiseled,
  • un-breakable.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • most ironhanded,
  • more ironhanded.
  •rocklike (adjective)
  • compressed,
  • consolidated,
  • indurate,
  • Compacted,
  • set,
  • Indurated,
  • dense.
  •rocky (adjective)
  • lithic,
  • bouldered,
  • rockbound,
  • rock-ribbed,
  • Impassible,
  • pebbly,
  • stonelike,
  • Lapidarian.
  •rough (adjective)
  • roughhewn,
  • bearish,
  • unhewn,
  • unwrought,
  • untutored,
  • unperfected,
  • uncompleted.
  •ruthless (adjective)
  • killer,
  • most killer,
  • more killer.
  •serious (adjective)
  • unamusing,
  • of consequence,
  • feller,
  • unhumorous,
  • playing hard ball,
  • no laughing matter,
  • sobering,
  • strictly business,
  • no joke,
  • smoking,
  • out for blood.
  •servile (adjective)
  • slavish.
  •severe (adjective)
  • unsmiling,
  • iron-handed.
  •slavish (adjective)
  • de pendent,
  • imitative,
  • un-inspired,
  • un inspired,
  • bondest,
  • un-original,
  • sub missive,
  • groveling,
  • de-pendent,
  • un original.
  •solid (adjective)
  • concrete,
  • substantial,
  • stable,
  • physical.
  •stale (adjective)
  • more zestless,
  • most zestless,
  • fusty,
  • most reeking,
  • in sipid,
  • re-eking,
  • more reeking,
  • stenchiest,
  • re eking,
  • in-sipid,
  • stenchier.
  •stern (adjective)
  • most mortified,
  • more mortified.
  •sticky (adjective)
  • dis comforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • more discomforting,
  • dis-comforting.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • in-ordinate,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un conscionable.
  •stonyhearted (adjective)
  • Stony-hearted,
  • stony hearted,
  • dis-passionate,
  • dis passionate.
  •stout (adjective)
  • in vincible,
  • stouter,
  • in-vincible,
  • able bodied,
  • ablebodied.
  •strenuous (adjective)
  • more energy-consuming,
  • energyconsuming,
  • most energyconsuming,
  • most energy consuming,
  • more energy consuming,
  • most toilful,
  • more toilful,
  • energy consuming,
  • more energyconsuming,
  • most energy-consuming.
  •strict (adjective)
  • more stickling,
  • up-tight,
  • up tight,
  • most stickling.
  •stringent (adjective)
  • more confining,
  • most brick wall,
  • brickwall,
  • more drawing,
  • more brick wall,
  • most brickwall,
  • more brickwall,
  • most drawing,
  • most brick-wall,
  • more brick-wall,
  • most confining.
  •strong (adjective)
  • unmixed,
  • well-established,
  • well-founded,
  • strong-flavored,
  • highly flavored,
  • highly seasoned.
  •tall (adjective)
  • embellished,
  • more embellished,
  • over blown,
  • un-believable,
  • over-blown,
  • un believable,
  • most embellished.
  •tenacious (adjective)
  • courageous,
  • tireless,
  • dauntless,
  • undaunted,
  • hearty,
  • headstrong,
  • determined,
  • true,
  • steadfast,
  • strong-willed,
  • bullheaded,
  • staunch,
  • fervent,
  • decisive,
  • devoted,
  • persevering,
  • persistent,
  • resolute,
  • spunky,
  • indomitable,
  • indefatigable,
  • enduring,
  • tenacious,
  • unflagging,
  • faithful,
  • diligent,
  • brave,
  • flintlike,
  • dogged,
  • bold,
  • bulldogged,
  • insistent,
  • plucky.
  •thick (adjective)
  • blubbery.
  •thorny (adjective)
  • Harassing,
  • most harassing,
  • more harassing.
  •tough (adjective)
  • more withstanding,
  • most steeled,
  • most withstanding,
  • most molded,
  • most hardshelled,
  • more molded,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • most cohesive,
  • un controllable,
  • most hard shelled,
  • hard shelled,
  • un-controllable,
  • more ruffianly,
  • more cohesive,
  • with-standing,
  • hardshelled,
  • more steeled,
  • more hard shelled,
  • more hardshelled,
  • with standing,
  • no piece of cake,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • no piece cake,
  • most ruffianly.
  •troublesome (adjective)
  • in-convenient,
  • more infestive,
  • dis quieting,
  • in-festive,
  • dis-quieting,
  • most infestive,
  • in festive,
  • un-governable,
  • more vexing,
  • in convenient,
  • most vexing.
  •true, indisputable (adjective)
  • absolute,
  • verified,
  • unvarnished,
  • plain.
  •true-life (adjective)
  • truelife,
  • true life.
  •trying (adjective)
  • more exasperating,
  • ex-asperating,
  • pro vocative,
  • most exasperating,
  • more aggravating,
  • pro-vocative,
  • most aggravating,
  • ex asperating,
  • more stressful,
  • most stressful.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • more ill-fitting,
  • more ill fitting,
  • most illfitting,
  • more torturing,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in commodious,
  • most torturing,
  • torturing,
  • most ill-fitting,
  • ill fitting,
  • illfitting,
  • un comfortable,
  • in-commodious,
  • most ill fitting,
  • more illfitting.
  •uncompassionate (adjective)
  • un compassionate,
  • un-touched,
  • un-compassionate,
  • un touched.
  •undisputable (adjective)
  • un-disputable,
  • un disputable.
  •unfeeling (adjective)
  • most iron hearted,
  • most anesthetized,
  • more sensationless,
  • more uncordial,
  • most unamiable,
  • un-feeling,
  • most ironhearted,
  • un-amiable,
  • in animate,
  • most uncordial,
  • more iron-hearted,
  • more unamiable,
  • be numbed,
  • more ironhearted,
  • most deadened,
  • iron hearted,
  • in-animate,
  • most iron-hearted,
  • un-cordial,
  • more deadened,
  • more anesthetized,
  • more iron hearted,
  • Iron-hearted,
  • most sensationless,
  • un feeling,
  • un cordial,
  • be-numbed,
  • un amiable.
  •unforgiving (adjective)
  • un-charitable,
  • unforgiving,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un charitable,
  • un forgiving.
  •unmerciful (adjective)
  • un-merciful,
  • un merciful.
  •unperfected (adjective)
  • un-perfected,
  • un perfected.
  •unpitying (adjective)
  • un-pitying,
  • un pitying.
  •unromantic (adjective)
  • un-romantic,
  • un romantic.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un-settling,
  • un settling.
  •unsparing (adjective)
  • ungrudging,
  • Procrustean.
  •unstirred (adjective)
  • un-stirred,
  • un stirred.
  •unsympathetic (adjective)
  • half hearted,
  • dis interested,
  • un-moved,
  • un-congenial,
  • anti pathetic,
  • most aversive,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • un congenial,
  • Half-hearted,
  • un sympathetic,
  • un-sympathetic,
  • dis-interested,
  • more aversive.
  •unyielding (adjective)
  • un wavering,
  • un-yielding,
  • un-wavering,
  • un yielding.
  •uphill (adjective)
  • up-hill,
  • up hill.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • up setting.
  •utilitarian (adjective)
  • nuts bolts.

• adv

  •badly (adverb)
  • gravely.
  •fast (adverb)
  • steadfastly,
  • securely,
  • tightly,
  • solidly,
  • soundly.
  •powerfully (adverb)
  • with might and main.
  •severely (adverb)
  • critically,
  • with an iron hand,
  • rigorously.

• adv.

  •badly (adverb)
  • extremely.
  •bang (adverb)
  • head-long,
  • head long.
  •closely (adverb)
  • by skin of one's teeth,
  • by skin of ones teeth,
  • similarly,
  • by skin of teeth,
  • by the skin one teeth,
  • searchingly,
  • nearly,
  • by skin ones teeth,
  • by skin teeth,
  • by the skin one's teeth,
  • by the skin of teeth,
  • by skin of one teeth,
  • intimately,
  • by the skin of one teeth,
  • jointly,
  • meticulously,
  • by the skin teeth,
  • by the skin ones teeth,
  • by the skin of ones teeth,
  • heedfully,
  • by skin one's teeth,
  • by skin one teeth.
  •fiercely (adverb)
  • viciously,
  • savagely,
  • un-controllably,
  • no holds barred,
  • terribly,
  • tooth nail,
  • like cats dogs,
  • riotously,
  • in frenzy,
  • un controllably.
  •firmly (adverb)
  • inflexibly,
  • stably,
  • in-flexibly,
  • un-flinchingly,
  • like rock,
  • un flinchingly,
  • in flexibly.
  •in a fixed manner (adverb)
  • close.
  •lowly (adverb)
  • humble.
  •mightily (adverb)
  • with all ones strength,
  • with all one strength,
  • with one's strength,
  • with one strength,
  • might main,
  • with all strength,
  • with ones strength,
  • with strength.
  •nearby (adverb)
  • near at hand,
  • close hand.
  •severely (adverb)
  • sternly,
  • oppressively.
  •thoroughly (adverb)
  • from to z,
  • up and down,
  • from a z,
  • from top bottom,
  • efficiently,
  • from z,
  • through through,
  • in out,
  • up down.
  •with determination (adverb)
  • exhaustively,
  • doggedly,
  • persistently,
  • intensively,
  • diligently,
  • industriously,
  • steadily,
  • Untiringly.
  •with difficulty (adverb)
  • inconveniently,
  • harshly,
  • burdensomely,
  • agonizingly,
  • toilsomely,
  • gruelingly,
  • with great effort,
  • hardly,
  • awkwardly,
  • exhaustingly,
  • distressingly,
  • arduously,
  • Unwieldily,
  • tiredly,
  • cumbrously,
  • cumbersomely,
  • ponderously.
  •with great force (adverb)
  • seriously,
  • roughly,
  • meanly,
  • relentlessly,
  • strongly,
  • with all one's might,
  • spiritedly,
  • wildly,
  • boisterously,
  • uproariously,
  • furiously,
  • painfully,
  • angrily,
  • intensely,
  • rowdily,
  • brutally,
  • briskly,
  • sharply,
  • like fury,
  • earnestly,
  • cruelly,
  • frantically,
  • actively,
  • sprightly,
  • vivaciously,
  • violently,
  • animatedly,
  • urgently.
  •with resentment (adverb)
  • sorely,
  • bitterly,
  • Rancorously,
  • reluctantly,
  • slowly.

• n.

  •
  • authentic,
  • definitely,
  • definite.
  •
  • active,
  • monstrous,
  • hateful,
  • evil.
  •
  • fearless,
  • carefully,
  • audacious,
  • heroic,
  • laboriously,
  • daring.
  •
  • last-ditch,
  • concerted,
  • flat out,
  • painstaking,
  • all-out,
  • resist,
  • by the sweat of your brow,
  • FULL BORE,
  • as if your life depends on it.
  •
  • continue,
  • be an effort,
  • Hard-handed,
  • hard-bitten.
  •
  • icicle,
  • effortful,
  • black ice,
  • icy,
  • glare ice,
  • ice over.
  •
  • attitude,
  • hot,
  • grim,
  • bleak.
  •
  • comfort.
  •
  • virulent,
  • acrimonious,
  • embittered,
  • love,
  • rancorous.
  •
  • positive,
  • inarguable,
  • certain,
  • irrefutable,
  • indubitable,
  • incontrovertible,
  • undeniable,
  • sure,
  • undisputable,
  • unquestionable,
  • indisputable,
  • incontestable.
  •
  • real.
  •
  • prosaic,
  • hardheaded,
  • excite,
  • sober,
  • tough-minded,
  • practical.
  •
  • ingestion,
  • intoxicative,
  • spirituous.
  •adamantine (noun)
  • adamantine.
  •alcoholic (noun)
  • stimulating,
  • intoxicating.
  •al dente (noun)
  • al dente.
  •arduous (noun)
  • arduous.
  •awkward (noun)
  • awkward.
  •baffling (noun)
  • baffling.
  •busily (noun)
  • busily.
  •calculating (noun)
  • calculating.
  •calculative (noun)
  • calculative.
  •callous (noun)
  • horny.
  •catchy (noun)
  • catchy.
  •challenging (noun)
  • challenging.
  •conniving (noun)
  • conniving.
  •corneous (noun)
  • corneous.
  •cruel (noun)
  • perverse,
  • vengeful,
  • unrelenting.
  •erect (noun)
  • erect.
  •fermented (noun)
  • fermented.
  •fractious (noun)
  • fractious.
  •granitelike (noun)
  • granitelike.
  •granitic (noun)
  • granitic.
  •gruelling (noun)
  • gruelling.
  •hard-boiled (noun)
  • hard-boiled.
  •hard-fought (noun)
  • hard-fought.
  •hardened (noun)
  • hardened.
  •heavily (noun)
  • heavily.
  •herculean (noun)
  • herculean.
  •hornlike (noun)
  • hornlike.
  •intemperate (noun)
  • intemperate.
  •intemperately (noun)
  • intemperately.
  •knockout (noun)
  • knockout.
  •labourious (noun)
  • labourious.
  •lignified (noun)
  • lignified.
  •marmoreal (noun)
  • marmoreal.
  •marmorean (noun)
  • marmorean.
  •nasty (noun)
  • nasty.
  •petrified (noun)
  • petrified.
  •petrous (noun)
  • petrous.
  •plosive (noun)
  • plosive.
  •problematic (noun)
  • problematic.
  •problematical (noun)
  • problematical.
  •rock (noun)
  • stone.
  •rocklike (noun)
  • rocklike.
  •scheming (noun)
  • scheming.
  •semihard (noun)
  • semihard.
  •slatey (noun)
  • slatey.
  •slaty (noun)
  • slaty.
  •soured (noun)
  • soured.
  •tumid (noun)
  • tumid.
  •unenviable (noun)
  • unenviable.
  •unkind (noun)
  • unkind.
  •unpadded (noun)
  • unpadded.
  •velar (noun)
  • velar.
  •vexed (noun)
  • vexed.
  •woody (noun)
  • woody.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • colonial,
  • strenuously,
  • depend on,
  • unpalatable,
  • generous,
  • frosty,
  • disagreeable,
  • unappetizing,
  • sick,
  • slimy,
  • chilling,
  • saline,
  • frosted,
  • devilish,
  • emotional,
  • nigh,
  • permanent,
  • rime,
  • rude,
  • infernal,
  • horrible,
  • freezing,
  • solidity,
  • vigorously,
  • frost,
  • energetically,
  • black,
  • rock-solid,
  • forcefully,
  • abusive,
  • wooden,
  • iron,
  • powerful.
  •
  • hardy,
  • nagging,
  • near,
  • watery,
  • precision,
  • rotten,
  • nameless.
  •
  • narrow,
  • hefty,
  • epic,
  • taxing,
  • wet,
  • lousy.
  •
  • crisp.
  •
  • sensitivity,
  • awful.
  •
  • freeze,
  • cold.
  •
  • great.
  •
  • moist,
  • excess,
  • unsettled,
  • showery,
  • drizzly,
  • rainy,
  • two-fisted,
  • in all weather(s).
  •
  • packed,
  • rock-hard,
  • strict.
  •
  • sharp.
  •confection
  • candy.
  •grain
  • wheat.
  •harsh
  • violent.
  •inedible
  • indigestible.
  •riotous
  • turbulent.
  •tedious
  • long.
  •wooden
  • wood.
  •Other relevant words:
  • impervious,
  • pachydermatous,
  • grave,
  • stalwart,
  • poignant,
  • hardworking,
  • hardfisted,
  • hard to understand,
  • husky,
  • wicked,
  • tough grind,
  • stingy,
  • doughty,
  • cramp,
  • tightfisted,
  • stern,
  • astringent,
  • steep,
  • hard labor,
  • close to,
  • closefisted,
  • uncompromising,
  • energetic,
  • unbending,
  • crabbed,
  • unsparing,
  • with a kick,
  • hard work,
  • pungent,
  • hale,
  • calloused,
  • sturdy,
  • close upon,
  • ardent,
  • ungenerous,
  • strapping,
  • effortfully,
  • inured,
  • thick-skinned,
  • illiberal.

Paraphrases for Hard:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    strenuous, tough.
  • Proper noun, singular
    tough.
  • Interjection
    tough.
  • Verb, past tense
    tough.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    rock-hard, hard-fought, hard-hitting.
  • Noun, plural
    hardships.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    hardened, hard-drive, laborious, complicated, awkward, hard-copy, intense, hard-line, hard-working, daunting, bitter, stiff, worst, intensive, problematic, diligent, tricky, onerous, hard-won, assiduous, hard-earned, strict, stringent, industrious, hard-shelled, paper-based, considerable, stark, cumbersome, hardto, uphill, rigorous, demanding, brutal, relentless, iron-clad, impossible, burdensome, rugged, formidable, distressing, sharp, hard-pressed, straightforward, tireless, intractable, hawkish, expensive, dire.
  • Proper noun, singular
    constraints, procedures, enforcements, Gentlemen, facts, Les.
  • Noun, plural
    obstacles, Possibilities, informants, problems, boys, constraints.
  • Adverb
    harshly, intensively, diligently, tirelessly, strenuously, assiduously, heavily, relentlessly, seriously, intensely, energetically, earnestly, desperately, fiercely, tenaciously, painstakingly, actively, sorely, doggedly, forcefully, quite, stubbornly, gravely, aggressively.
  • Verb, past tense
    Persisted, spans, Lasted, Did, Killed, noted, Took, Acted, made, Got, complicated.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    happening, Having, trying, finding, facing, Obtaining, testing, coming, going, making, getting, daunting, demanding.
  • Verb, past participle
    Hampered, Challenged, constrained, Hindered, restricted, Encountered, found, impeded, faced, compounded, Prevented, Compromised, hardened, complicated.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    appears, reduces, limits, stands, remains, takes, makes.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    hardworking, hardness.
  • Proper noun, singular
    harder.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    harder.

Antonyms for Hard:

• adj.

  • all
    soft.
  • cruel, ruthless
    kind, bright, sunny, cheerful, gentle.
  • difficult, exhausting
    happy, unimportant, trivial, light.
  • rocklike
    flexible, facile, simple, mild, yielding, doubtful, sympathetic, untrue, questionable, delicate, disputable, weak, easy, nice, inexact.
  • true, indisputable
    unsure.
  • Other antonyms:
    implausible, nonsensical, embroidered, fallacious, fabulous, doable, pretend, responsive, lessened, fictitious, benignant, toned, merciful, manageable, peaceful, patient, puny, incapacitated, warmhearted, relaxing, warm, pliable, reposeful, permeable, alleviated, fresh, undocumented, exaggerated, thin, worn-out, Unreasoned, mindless, invalid, nonalcoholic, adjustable, diminished, crippled, subservient, compromising, mortal, unauthentic, variable, sweet, forbearing, hospitable, qualified, tolerant, obedient, cordial, worn, unsteady, bendable, lenient, luxurious, placable, tractable, hypothetical, agreeable, slavish, eased, benevolent, friendly, unsound, undemanding, flickery, fluctuating, flimsy, temporary, uninformed, illogical, comforting, docile, transient, unpredictable, mutable, strict, forgiving, trifling, accepting, volatile, persuadable, governable, restful, compliant, diffuse, subdued, mythical, nonindulgent, fanciful, affectionate, resistless, willing, chimerical, changeable, scattered, indefinite, open-ended, good-natured, good-tempered, slight, reduced, nonfactual, misguided, diseased, imagined, legendary, sensitive, acquiescent, genial, fictionalized, unstable, susceptible, pliant, achievable, moderated, negotiable, theoretical, irrational, speculative, unsupportable, exhausted, caring, inconstant, unspecified, bearable, porous, gracious, changeful, tenderhearted, temperate, insupportable, accessible, fictional, tolerable, softhearted, unresistant, fantastic, imaginary, unbitter, emasculated, kindly, complaisant, unconvincing, laid-back, submissive, apocryphal, nonrational, vulnerable, complying, calm, uncertain, loving, moderate, decreased, mercurial, unsettled, false, perishable, capricious, amenable, malleable, kindhearted, receptive, fond, diffused, reasonable, invented, endurable, clear, made-up, unjustified, pleasant, temperamental, airy.

• adv.

  • with great force
    lightly, gently, indulgently, moderately, easily, softly, unfixedly, tolerantly, unenthusiastically.

Homophones for Hard:

• hear out, heard, hurried, hired, heredity, hardy, Herat, heyward, harrod, Haired, hard wheat, harte, harried, hardheaded, hirohito, hairy root, hearth, heart, hairdo, hart, hire out, hard hat, hirudo, heartwood, herod, hrt, hair dye, herd, horde, haredi, horta, hearty, HAART, horrid, hoard, herewith, hardihood, hurt, hardwood, hertha, haworth, howard.