›harsh or unfriendly; resentful; severe; bitter: hard feelings; hard words.
›of stern judgment or close examination; searching: a hard look.
›lacking delicacy or softness; not blurred or diffused; clear and distinct; sharp; harsh: a hard line; a hard, bright light; hard features; a hard face.
› contrasty.
›severe or rigorous in terms: a hard bargain.
›sternly realistic; dispassionate; unsentimental: a hard, practical man; a hard view of life.
›incorrigible; disreputable; tough: a hard character.
›Scot. and North England. stingy; mean: hard with money.
›in coins or paper money as distinguished from checks, securities, promissory notes, or other negotiable instruments).
› supported by sufficient gold reserves and easily convertible into the currency of a foreign nation.
› scarce or available at high interest rates: a hard loan.
›denoting assets with intrinsic value, as gold, silver, or diamonds.
› containing more than 22.5 percent alcohol by volume, as whiskey and brandy as opposed to beer and wine.strong because of fermentation; intoxicating: hard cider.
› tasting excessively of tannin.
› known to be physically addictive, as opium, morphine, or cocaine.
› containing mineral salts that interfere with the action of soap.
› having a firm, crisp crust or texture: hard rolls.stale or tough.
› having relatively little nap; smooth: Silk is a harder fabric than wool or cotton.
› executed without decelerating: a hard landing on the moon.Compare soft.
› equipped to launch missiles from underground silos.
› capable of being launched from an underground silo.
›Military. being underground and strongly protected from nuclear bombardment.
›Agriculture. noting wheats with high gluten content, milled for a bread flour as contrasted with pastry flour.
›Phonetics. fortis. pronounced as in come and in go, rather than as in cent, cello, suspicion, gem, or beige. not palatalized.Compare soft.
› noting a lay having a considerable angle to the axis of the rope; short.
›Physics. having relatively high energy: hard x-rays.Compare soft.
› erect.
adv.adverb · 副词
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hard·er, hard·est.
›with great exertion; with vigor or violence; strenuously: to work hard; to try hard.
›earnestly, intently, or critically: to look hard at a thing.
›harshly or severely.
›so as to be solid, tight, or firm: frozen hard.
›with strong force or impact: She tripped and came down hard on her back.
›in a deeply affected manner; with genuine sorrow or remorse: She took it very hard when they told her of his death.
›closely; immediately: Failure and defeat seemed hard at hand. The decision to ban students from the concerts followed hard on the heels of the riot.
›to an unreasonable or extreme degree; excessively; immoderately: He's hitting the bottle pretty hard.
›Nautical. closely, fully, or to the extreme limit: hard aport; hard alee.
n.noun · 名词
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›Nautical. a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
›British. a firm or solid beach or foreshore.a firm landing, jetty, or road across or adjoining the foreshore.