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hard-and-fast
adjective as in strict
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest matches
adjective as in set
adjective as in hard-and-fast
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
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Example Sentences
At the least, there must be hard-and-fast laws about insider trading, right?
Following his hard-and-fast rule, Mr. Norcross didn't deny himself to anybody.
He saw in painting a sort of abstract geometry for which there existed hard-and-fast forms.
Your hard-and-fast scientific men—your Spencers and Huxleys—they don't understand that.
A physician, for example, deliberately avoids such hard-and-fast alternatives as have been postulated in our instance.
But he never takes it as a hard-and-fast principle which must at all costs be imposed upon the facts.
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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard-and-fast, such as: absolute, binding, carved in stone, compulsory, conclusive, and decisive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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