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📖 Определения и значения для слова hard

📒 difficult to do, understand or answer

  • a hard choice/decision/question
  • hard to do something It is hard to believe that she's only nine.
  • It's hard to see how they can lose.

📒 full of difficulty and problems, especially because of a lack of money

  • Times were hard at the end of the war.
  • She's had a hard life.
  • Life got very hard.

📒 needing or using a lot of physical strength or mental effort

  • It's hard work shovelling snow.
  • This is the hardest part of my job.
  • It was one of the hardest things I ever did.

📒 putting a lot of effort or energy into an activity

  • She's a very hard worker.
  • He's hard at work on a new novel.
  • When I left they were all still hard at it (= working hard).

📒 done with a lot of strength or force

  • He gave the door a good hard kick.
  • a hard punch

📒 solid or stiff and difficult to bend or break

  • Wait for the concrete to go hard.
  • a hard mattress
  • Diamonds are the hardest known mineral.

📒 showing no kind feelings or sympathy

  • My father was a hard man.
  • She gave me a hard stare.
  • His voice was hard.

📒 showing no signs of fear or weakness; ready to fight or compete

  • Come and get me if you think you're hard enough.
  • You think you're really hard, don't you?
  • He's as hard and uncompromising as any professional sportsman.

📒 definitely true and based on information that can be proved

  • Is there any hard evidence either way?
  • The newspaper story is based on hard facts.

📒 very cold and severe

  • It had been a hard winter.
  • There was a hard frost that night.

📒 strongly alcoholic

  • hard liquor
  • (informal) a drop of the hard stuff (= a strong alcoholic drink)

📒 containing calcium and other mineral salts that make mixing with soap difficult

  • a hard water area
  • Our water is very hard.

📒 used to describe a letter c or g when pronounced as in ‘cat’ or ‘go’, rather than as in ‘city’ or ‘giant’

📒 to treat or criticize somebody in a very severe or strict way

  • Don't be too hard on him—he's very young.

📒 to be difficult for or unfair to somebody/something

  • It's hard on people who don't have a car.

📒 to be likely to hurt or damage something

  • Looking at a computer screen all day can be very hard on the eyes.

📒 in a situation where you have to choose between two things, both of which are unpleasant

📒 to argue in an aggressive way and force somebody to agree on the best possible price or arrangement

📒 to deliberately make a situation difficult and unpleasant for somebody

  • They really gave me a hard time at the interview.

📒 that cannot be changed in any circumstances

  • There are no hard and fast rules about this.
  • This situation isn’t hard and fast.

📒 showing no fear, sympathy or kind behaviour

📒 used as a way of saying that you are sorry about something, usually ironically (= you really mean the opposite)

📒 difficult to understand or needing a lot of effort

  • I'm finding his latest novel very hard going.

📒 used to tell somebody that you feel sorry for them

  • ‘Failed again, I'm afraid.’ ‘Oh, hard luck.’

📒 a difficult problem or situation to deal with

📒 a person or event that is so good or successful at something that it will be difficult for anyone/anything else coming after them to be as good or successful

  • She has been an excellent principal and will be a hard act to follow.
  • Their contribution will prove a tough act to follow.

📒 by having an unpleasant experience or by making mistakes

  • She won't listen to my advice so she'll just have to learn the hard way.
  • He learned about the dangers of drugs the hard way.

📒 to have difficulty doing something

  • You'll have a job convincing them that you're right.
  • He had a hard job to make himself heard.
  • He'll have a tough job getting the team into shape in time.

📒 to use more time or energy on a task than is necessary

📒 used after you have been arguing with somebody or have beaten them in a contest but you would still like to be friendly with them

  • It looks like I'm the winner again. No hard feelings, Dave, eh?
  • Someone has to lose. No hard feelings, eh?

📒 to make yourself seem more attractive or interesting by not immediately accepting an invitation to do something

📒 to consider a problem or possibility very carefully and without hurrying

  • We need to take a long, hard look at all the options.

📒 needing too much effort

  • I can't be bothered making a hot meal—it's too much like hard work.
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