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harder
adjective as in rocklike
adjective as in difficult, exhausting
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- backbreaking
- bothersome
- burdensome
- demanding
- difficile
- distressing
- effortful
- exacting
- fatiguing
- formidable
- grinding
- hairy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rugged
- scabrous
- severe
- slavish
- sticky
- strenuous
- tiring
- toilful
- toilsome
- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
adjective as in cruel, ruthless
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in true, indisputable
adverb as in with great force
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
- actively
- angrily
- animatedly
- boisterously
- briskly
- brutally
- cruelly
- earnestly
- energetically
- ferociously
- fiercely
- forcibly
- frantically
- furiously
- intensely
- keenly
- like fury
- madly
- meanly
- painfully
- powerfully
- relentlessly
- rigorously
- roughly
- rowdily
- savagely
- sharply
- spiritedly
- sprightly
- stormily
- turbulently
- uproariously
- urgently
- viciously
- violently
- vivaciously
- wildly
- with all one's might
adverb as in with determination
adverb as in with difficulty
adverb as in with resentment
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Example Sentences
It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.
But as you get older, I find I get more tunes and I have to work harder at the words.
Regulations and rules are making it harder to do the right thing.
“After we got engaged, she only made things harder,” explains Sabrine.
Improving an economy is a lot harder with only half the population working.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
He sighed as he laid the papers on the table; for he thought the task would be a harder one than even his own immolation.
He worked fiercer than ever—harder than the day-labourer—at his place of business.
With each advance in invention and mechanical power it works harder still.
Closing the holes again and blowing harder, we get the scale an octave higher.
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On this page you'll find 376 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to harder, such as: solid, strong, tough, concentrated, callous, and compact.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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