Meaning : Not easy. Requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.
Example :
A difficult task.
Nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access.
Difficult times.
Why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?.
Synonyms : difficult
Posing no difficulty. Requiring little effort.
An easy job.Meaning : Dispassionate.
Example :
Took a hard look.
A hard bargainer.
Meaning : Resisting weight or pressure.
Yielding readily to pressure or weight.
softMeaning : Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion. Especially physical effort.
Example :
Worked their arduous way up the mining valley.
A grueling campaign.
Hard labor.
Heavy work.
Heavy going.
Spent many laborious hours on the project.
Set a punishing pace.
Synonyms : arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
Meaning : (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source.
Synonyms : concentrated
Meaning : (of speech sounds). Produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum.
Example :
Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants.
(of speech sounds). Produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate. Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh').
softMeaning : Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors.
Example :
A hard drinker.
Synonyms : heavy, intemperate
Meaning : Being distilled rather than fermented. Having a high alcoholic content.
Example :
Hard liquor.
Synonyms : strong
Meaning : Dried out.
Example :
Hard dry rolls left over from the day before.
Meaning : With effort or force or vigor.
Example :
The team played hard.
Worked hard all day.
Pressed hard on the lever.
Hit the ball hard.
Slammed the door hard.
Meaning : Earnestly or intently.
Example :
Thought hard about it.
Stared hard at the accused.
Meaning : Causing great damage or hardship.
Example :
Industries hit hard by the depression.
She was severely affected by the bank's failure.
Synonyms : severely
Meaning : Slowly and with difficulty.
Example :
Prejudices die hard.
He was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight.
Synonyms : hardly
Meaning : Into a solid condition.
Example :
Concrete that sets hard within a few hours.
Meaning : Very near or close in space or time.
Example :
It stands hard by the railroad tracks.
They were hard on his heels.
A strike followed hard upon the plant's opening.
Meaning : With pain or distress or bitterness.
Example :
He took the rejection very hard.
Meaning : To the full extent possible. All the way.
Example :
Hard alee.
The ship went hard astern.
Swung the wheel hard left.