hard

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But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture.

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Quick take

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "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?"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hard gathered in one view.

adjective

dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";

adjective

resisting weight or pressure

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hard.

adjective

dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";

adjective

resisting weight or pressure

adjective

very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

adjective

characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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"

adjective

produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"

adjective

(of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

adjective

(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

adjective

given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

adjective

being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

adjective

unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

adjective

dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

adverb

with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"

adverb

with firmness; "held hard to the railing"

adverb

earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"

adverb

causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

adverb

slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"

adverb

indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

adverb

into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"

adverb

very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

adverb

with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"

adverb

to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

Example sentences

But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture.

When it happens slowly, as it does in these cases, it is hard to see the scale of what is happening.

"No, you're fucking not working hard, you added the last ones a year and a half ago. EU countries are missing, for fucks sake.

Here is a lesson I've learned the long, hard way after 30 years of being a strong introvert: it's not how or where you meet people that counts.

It's hard to imagine writing any code these days without Stackoverflow.

Be 100% professional and non-confrontational, but ask the hard questions when you need to.

Without specifics, this is incredibly hard to discuss.

Well, Bezos called him, but he'd been up already... he was a hard partier who, just between you and me, also was selling drugs on the side.

It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal.

Proteins, like perfume, are a carefully constructed thing and are hard to perfectly replicate.

Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework.

I'm not saying that lightly, I worked for a dozen startups, a couple of which crashed hard in the most gut wrenchingly painful way you could imagine.

As a student who did not cheat, worked very hard, and still received a relatively low grade in your class, theres nothing more infuriating.

I talk about this in every single presentation Ive ever given about sharding[0]: do no wait too long to add capacity.

If you burn yourself out hard, it will be difficult to be effective at any future job you go to, even if it is ostensibly a wonderful job.

That is especially hard when the sound distinction signifies a grammatical distinction that also doesn't exist in the learner's native language.

A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified.

I think we should care more about women earning 77 cents on the dollar and having an unfairly hard time recovering their career progress after maternity than about an occasional dongle joke.