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How to pronounce hard in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms concentrated
Type Words
Synonyms tough
Derivation hardness


had hard luck.
Type Words
Synonyms firmly


held hard to the railing.
Type Words
Synonyms surd, unvoiced, voiceless
Type Words
Synonyms hardly


prejudices die hard.
he was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight.
Type Words
Synonyms knockout, severe


a hard left to the chin.
Type Words
Synonyms heavy, intemperate


a hard drinker.
Type Words
Synonyms heavily, intemperately
Type Words
Synonyms difficult
Derivation hardness


why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?.
Type Words
Synonyms strong


hard liquor.
Type Words
Synonyms arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
Derivation hardness


hard labor.
Type Words
Synonyms severely


industries hit hard by the depression.
Type Words
Derivation hardness


took a hard look.
a hard bargainer.
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hard dry rolls left over from the day before.
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Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants.
Type Words
Derivation hardness
Type Words


the team played hard.
worked hard all day.
pressed hard on the lever.
hit the ball hard.
slammed the door hard.
Type Words


concrete that sets hard within a few hours.

Examples of hard

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Like many things, it looks effortless when you've done all the hard work before.
From the dailyherald.com
So I'm sure there will be some who will have a hard time getting over that hump.
From the abcnews.go.com
He's strong, fast, a hard worker on the field, and has excellent passing skills.
From the stltoday.com
When I first moved to St. Louis, I found it a little hard to get to know people.
From the stltoday.com
Hard to be so open and authentic, but it is both tough-minded and kind to do so.
From the forbes.com
I found out the hard way the notebook app on my IPad doesn't have a save button.
From the usatoday.com
Changing habits is hard, so it may help to understand the costs of not changing.
From the sacbee.com
It was hard to open up wide enough for a bite, much less finish the whole thing.
From the ocregister.com
Both disorders often seem mysterious in that their origins are hard to pinpoint.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Difficult: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
  • With effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
  • Dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
  • With firmness; "held hard to the railing"
  • Earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
  • Resisting weight or pressure
  • Hard is a Hungarian hard rock supergroup formed in late 2004 in Budapest, Hungary by Ju00F3zsef Kalapu00E1cs (ex-vocalist of Pokolgu00E9p and Omen, currently also singing in Kalapu00E1cs) and Gu00E1bor Mirkovics (ex-bass guitarist of EDDA Mu0171vek)...
  • Hard (Hard) is the fifth album by Dutch language rapper Brainpower. It was released April 21, 2008 on Lyric Recordings, together with his fourth album Hart (Heart) and contains the single "Boks Ouwe". ...
  • In computational complexity theory, a computational problem is complete for a complexity class if it is, in a formal sense, one of the "hardest" or "most expressive" problems in the complexity class. ...