Results for hard

Definition of hard:

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Firm; solid; difficult; painful; severe; laborious.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Not easily penetrated; firm; solid; not soft; not easy to be done or executed; laborious; fatiguing; severe; oppressive; unkind; rough; sour, as applied to beer, & c.; unprosperous, as hard times; avaricious and exacting; in the fine arts, applied to a style which rejects the graces and too rigidly adheres to the mere mechanism of art.

• part of speech: (adverb)

  Close; near; earnestly; diligently, as to read hard, to work hard; importunately; nimbly; with great force.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  With difficulty; urgently; laboriously; near; close.

Usage examples for hard:

“ Things are very hard sir- And you come to me for help? ” The Monk of Hambleton, - Armstrong Livingston.