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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
Example Sentences
But the cost of living crisis might be about to hit harder than ever.
What they talk about instead is a much more modest ambition of making it harder to cross borders without the right paperwork, reducing the number who do so and disrupting the people smugglers.
But addiction, mental illness and poverty can make it harder for people to come out of homelessness.
That helps plants avoid water loss, but it also makes it harder for foliar-applied herbicides to get in.
In my hospital bed, I turned the camera on myself, not as a self-indulgence, but to spotlight a nasty cancer that’s hard to treat and even harder to beat.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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