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hard
adjective as in rocklike
adjective as in difficult, exhausting
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- tumultuously
- 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
Example Sentences
This semester alone there have been 171 incidents of burglary and vandalism in the nation’s second-largest school system, with Wadsworth Elementary, the site of a Monday news conference, especially hard hit.
Traditional methods for generating such ultra-short hard X-ray pulses required dramatically reducing the electron bunch charge to tens of picocoulombs, which limited the pulse energy and practical use.
But tax rises announced in the Budget have resulted in a backlash from businesses who have warned the policy decisions will make it harder for employers to hire more people.
Speech-to-text programs are becoming more popular for everyday tasks like hands-free dictation, helping people who are visually impaired, and transcribing speech for those who are hard of hearing.
"The reasons are hard to speculate on and may result from multiple factors, such as decreased desire for more children, trauma, infertility related to psychiatric medications, or lack of health counselling," says Tsamantioti.
Scott: I never laughed harder in my life.
All that extra sugar can make cranberry dishes hard to consume for Type 1 diabetics, because the sugars cause a rapid rise in blood glucose.
He added experts and contractors were on site working hard to resolve the situation.
“It’s beautiful. The people are amazing. But, man, it makes it hard to operate a water system.”
During the pandemic, Prof Fong, a consultant anaesthetist, conducted around 40 visits of the "hardest hit" intensive care units on behalf of NHS England to offer peer support to the doctors and nurses working there.
The prime minister argued that he had "inherited a lot of problems" from the previous government and that he had decided to "take the hard decisions first".
It's hard to resist dreaming about cookies, specialty cakes, rich meats and super saucy side dishes.
And the election of Donald Trump, whose administration is expected to be generally pro-business, could give media executives latitude to take a harder line in bargaining.
“The hardest part was the confidence. That’s how you know a true wrestler. That confidence to be willing to get thrown in the air,” he says.
Home-schooled by her parents, Thea, who like Stine is hard of hearing, is further isolated by her parents’ refusal to adapt to her disability.
But it’s hard not to think that everyone is missing the point.
Like Sirianni, Barkley heaped praise on his blockers and invoked one of his favorite sayings: “It’s hard to be great without the greatness of others.”
California, where much of the unionized entertainment workforce resides, has been hit particularly hard, and many professionals have been out of work for more than a year.
The team was having a hard time moving tickets, so Browns owner Art Modell offered free admission to every high school football staff in the region.
“Our hard stance is we are not document experts,” said one farm labor contractor, who asked not to be identified to discuss sensitive legal matters.
“Planning is hard because it requires tracking your cycles, and not everyone has regular cycles,” Wu said.
That is the work we are being called to do: To re-envision what democracy needs to be, then do the hard work to make it a reality.
"The concrete was old and very hard and I had to get rid of it myself because you can't get a vehicle down here so it's been hard work," he said.
She will be on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life and is immunosuppressed, meaning it is harder for her body to fight infections and disease.
“Some of us really are trying hard to get our lives back together and work.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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