Not easily yielding to pressure How to use hard in a sentence Not easy to bend, cut, or break Difficult to understand, do, experience, or deal with Something that is hard is very firm and stiff to touch and is not easily bent, cut, or broken He shuffled his feet on the hard wooden floor.
(= difficult) → schwer, schwierig This is hard to do, it is hard to do → es ist schwer, das zu tun Stories that are hard to understand → geschichten, die schwer verständlich sind That is a very hard question to answer → diese frage lässt sich nur schwer beantworten Their prices are hard to beat → ihre preise sind kaum zu. Definition of hard adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Hard (comparative harder or more hard, superlative hardest or most hard) (of material or fluid) solid and firm Find 1748 different ways to say hard, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at thesaurus.com. Difficult or troublesome with respect to an action, situation, person, etc. Difficult to deal with, manage, control, overcome, or understand There are 83 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word hard, two of which are labelled obsolete See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Hard, difficult both describe something resistant to one's efforts or one's endurance Hard is the general word It was hard to endure the severe weather.
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