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hard
adjective as in rocklike
adjective as in difficult, exhausting
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- backbreaking
- bothersome
- burdensome
- demanding
- difficile
- distressing
- effortful
- exacting
- fatiguing
- formidable
- grinding
- hairy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rugged
- scabrous
- severe
- slavish
- sticky
- strenuous
- tiring
- toilful
- toilsome
- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
adjective as in cruel, ruthless
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in true, indisputable
adverb as in with great force
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
- actively
- angrily
- animatedly
- boisterously
- briskly
- brutally
- cruelly
- earnestly
- energetically
- ferociously
- fiercely
- forcibly
- frantically
- furiously
- intensely
- keenly
- like fury
- madly
- meanly
- painfully
- powerfully
- relentlessly
- rigorously
- roughly
- rowdily
- savagely
- sharply
- spiritedly
- sprightly
- stormily
- tumultuously
- turbulently
- uproariously
- urgently
- viciously
- violently
- vivaciously
- wildly
- with all one's might
adverb as in with determination
adverb as in with difficulty
adverb as in with resentment
Example Sentences
“This gives them the ability to go harder, faster,” Cooper said.
It’s hard to conceive of a less efficient way to return resources to households.
“We’ve worked hard to fashion a new identity, which might be at odds with how our family thinks about us.”
Pressure from the markets means it's hard for the chancellor to borrow any more.
“It’s hard not to think of myself as failing my family and my kids.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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