hard

I. a.

1.

Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unyielding, rigid.

2.

Difficult, embarrassing, perplexing, puzzling, knotty, intricate, understood with difficulty.

3.

Laborious, arduous, toilsome, fatiguing, wearying.

4.

Unfeeling, unkind, insensible, unsusceptible, cruel, oppressive, rigorous, exacting, severe, unyielding, inflexible, callous, obdurate, hard-hearted, unfeeling, unsympathetic.

5.

Grievous, distressing, calamitous, painful, disagreeable, unpleasant.

6.

Inclement, stormy, tempestuous, cold, severe.

7.

Harsh, rough, sour, acid.

8.

Coarse, unpalatable.

9.

Unfavorable, unprosperous, unpropitious.

10.

Stiff, constrained, forced, unnatural, ungraceful, rigid.

11.

Excessive, intemperate.

II. ad.

1.

Close, near.

2.

Laboriously, diligently, earnestly, incessantly, energetically.

3.

With difficult, not easily.

4.

Distressfully, painfully, severely, rigorously.

5.

Vehemently, forcibly, violently.