[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hard \hard\ haumrd, a. compar. harder -~er; superl.
   hardest. oe. hard, heard, as. heard; akin to os.  d.
   hard, g. hart, ohg. herti, harti, icel. harethr, dan.
   haard, sw. hard, goth. hardus, gr. kraty`s strong,
   ka`rtos, kra`tos, strength, and also to e. -ard, as in
   coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf.
   skr. kratu strength, k.r to do, make. cf. hardy.
   1. not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not
      yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to
      material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood;
      hard flesh; a hard apple.
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   2. difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended,
      decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
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            the hard causes they brought unto moses. --ex.
                                                  xviii. 26.
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            in which are some things hard to be understood. --2
                                                  peter iii. 16.
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   3. difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious;
      fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to
      cure.
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   4. difficult to resist or control; powerful.
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            the stag was too hard for the horse.  --l'estrange.
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            a power which will be always too hard for them.
                                                  --addison.
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   5. difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or
      consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive;
      distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times;
      hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
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            i never could drive a hard bargain.   --burke.
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   6. difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding;
      obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard
      master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
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   7. not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid;
      ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
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            figures harder than even the marble itself.
                                                  --dryden.
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   8. rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
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   9. pron. abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated,
      sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the
      organs from one position to another; -- said of certain
      consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished
      from the same letters in center, general, etc.
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   10. wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a
       hard tone.
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   11. painting
       a rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures;
           formal; lacking grace of composition.
       b having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the
           coloring or light and shade.
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   hard cancer, hard case, etc. see under cancer, case,
      etc.

   hard clam, or hard-shelled clam zool., the quahog.

   hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous
      coal soft coal.

   hard and fast. naut. see under fast.

   hard finish arch., a smooth finishing coat of hard fine
      plaster applied to the surface of rough plastering.

   hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions.

   hard money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper
      money.

   hard oyster zool., the northern native oyster. local, u.
      s.

   hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil;
      hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental
      part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of
      character, of a matter in dispute, etc. see pan.

   hard rubber. see under rubber.

   hard solder. see under solder.

   hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral
      substance rendering it unfit for washing. see hardness,
      3.

   hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak,
      ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar,
      hemlock, etc.

   in hard condition, in excellent condition for racing;
      having firm muscles; -- said of race horses.

   syn: solid; arduous; powerful; trying; unyielding; stubborn;
        stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh; difficult; severe;
        obdurate; rigid. see solid, and arduous.
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see also:
harder hardest hardy soft hard cancer hard case 
cancer case hard clam hard-shelled clam hard coal 
bituminous coal soft coal hard and fast fast hard finish 
hard lines hard money hard oyster hard pan pan 
hard rubber rubber hard solder solder hard water 
hardness hard wood in hard condition solid arduous 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hard \hard\, adv. oe. harde, as. hearde.
   1. with pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
      1913 webster

            and prayed so hard for mercy from the prince.
                                                  --dryden.
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            my father
            is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself. --shak.
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   2. with difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
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   3. uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. --shak.
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   4. so as to raise difficulties. "the question is hard set."
      --sir t. browne.
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   5. with tension or strain of the powers; violently; with
      force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously;
      energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence,
      rapidly; nimbly; as, to run hard.
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   6. close or near.
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            whose house joined hard to the synagogue. --acts
                                                  xviii. 7.
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   hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. "hard by a
      cottage chimney smokes." --milton.

   hard pushed, hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard
      pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. colloq.

   hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without
      money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. slang
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   note: hard in nautical language is often joined to words of
         command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should
         be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm
         should be put, in the direction indicated, to the
         extreme limit, as, hard aport hard astarboard hard
         alee hard aweather hard up
         hard is also often used in composition with a
         participle; as, hard-baked; hard-earned; hard-featured;
         hard-working; hard-won.
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see also:
hard by near by hard pushed hard run hard up 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hard \hard\ haumrd, v. t.
   to harden; to make hard. obs. --chaucer.
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[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hard \hard\, n.
   a ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hard
     adj 1: 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"; "a difficult child";
            "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it
            so hard for you to keep a secret?" syn: difficult
            ant: easy
     2: metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a
        hard bargainer"; "a hard climb" ant: soft
     3: not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as
        rock" ant: soft
     4: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the
        chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" syn: knockout,
         severe
     5: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion;
        especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
        the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
        "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
        on the project"; "set a punishing pace" syn: arduous, backbreaking,
         grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, punishing,
         toilsome
     6: of speech sounds ant: soft
     7: of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a
        lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker" syn: harda,
        heavy
     8: having undergone fermentation; "hard cider" syn: fermented
     9: having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" syn: strong
     10: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough
         break" syn: tough
     11: dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
     adv 1: 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"
     2: with firmness; "held hard to the railing" syn: firmly
     3: earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard
        at the accused"
     4: causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by
        the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's
        failure" syn: severely
     5: slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
     6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" syn: heavily, intemperately
        ant: lightly
     7: into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a
        few hours"
     8: very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the
        railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike
        followed hard upon the plant's opening"
     9: with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection
        very hard"
     10: to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the
         ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
     also: hardest, harder
see also:
difficult easy soft knockout severe arduous 
backbreaking grueling gruelling heavy laborious 
punishing toilsome harda fermented strong 
tough firmly severely heavily intemperately 
lightly hardest harder 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

686 moby thesaurus words for "hard":
   herculean, philistine, about, absolute, abstruse, accented, acerb,
   acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, actively, acute, adamant, adamantine,
   addictive, adverse, afflictive, agonizing, agonizingly, alcoholic,
   all but, almost, along toward, alveolar, amaroidal, anesthetic,
   angry, antagonistic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
   approximately, ardent, ardently, arduous, arduously, around,
   articulated, assiduous, assiduously, assimilated, astringent,
   at close quarters, at hand, atrocious, austere, avid, back,
   backbreaking, bad, badly, baffling, bankrupt, bare, barytone,
   bec et ongles, beefy, beyond one, bilabial, biting, bitter,
   bitter as gall, bleak, bloodless, blunt, bony, bothersome,
   bouncing, bowelless, brazen, broad, broke, brutal, brutish, bulky,
   burdensome, businesslike, busted, cacuminal, calamitous,
   calculating, callous, calloused, carefully, cartilaginous,
   case-hardened, cast-iron, caustic, cement, cemental, central,
   cerebral, checked, chewy, clear, close, close about, close at hand,
   close by, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, coarse,
   cohesive, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, compact,
   compacted, complex, complicated, compressed, concentrated,
   concrete, condensed, conditioning, conflicting, congested,
   conscienceless, conscientious, conscientiously, consolidated,
   consonant, consonantal, continuant, contrary, cool, coriaceous,
   corneous, counter, counteractive, crabbed, crammed, crammed full,
   cramp, cramping, critical, crowded, cruel, dark, deep, deeply,
   definite, delicate, demanding, dense, dental, despotic,
   determinedly, detrimental, devastating, devoted, devotedly,
   dictatorial, difficile, difficult, diligent, diligently,
   disastrous, dispassionate, dissimilated, distinct, distressing,
   distressingly, dog-eat-dog, dogged, doggedly, dorsal, doughty,
   dour, down-to-earth, dull, durable, dure, dynamically, eager,
   eagerly, earnestly, effortful, effortfully, enduring, energetic,
   energetically, enigmatic, exacting, excruciating, exhausting,
   factual, fast by, fatiguing, fervent, fibrous, firm, flat,
   flinthearted, flintlike, flinty, forceful, forcefully, forcible,
   forcibly, forcy, formidable, front, full-blooded, full-strength,
   fundamentalist, garbled, genuine, glide, glossal, glottal, gluey,
   gnawing, granitelike, granitic, grave, grievous, grim, grinding,
   griping, gristly, gutsy, guttural, gutty, habit-forming,
   habituating, hairy, hale, hammer and tongs, hard as nails, hard by,
   hard of heart, hard to understand, hard up, hard-bitten,
   hard-boiled, hard-core, hard-earned, hard-fought, hard-nosed,
   hard-set, hardened, hardheaded, hardhearted, hardworking, hardy,
   harmful, harrowing, harsh, harshly, heart and soul, heartily,
   heartless, hearty, heavy, hefty, hereabout, hereabouts, hidebound,
   high, horny, hostile, hurtful, hurting, husky, ill, immovable,
   immutable, impassible, impecunious, impenetrable, impenitent,
   impermeable, impervious, implacable, impliable, impoverished,
   impregnable, in opposition, in spitting distance, in the red,
   inclement, incomprehensible, incontestable, incontrovertible,
   indefatigable, indefatigably, indigent, indisputable, indurate,
   indurated, industrious, industriously, inelastic, ineluctable,
   inescapable, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, inimical,
   inscrutable, insensate, insensitive, insolent, insoluble,
   intemperate, intense, intensely, intent, intently, intonated,
   intractable, intransigent, intricate, inured, involved, irksome,
   iron, iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike,
   irreconcilable, jam-packed, jammed, jawbreaking, jumbled, keen,
   knotted, knotty, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, labored,
   laborious, laboriously, lapideous, lasting, lateral, lax,
   leatherlike, leathery, light, lingual, liquid, lithoid, lithoidal,
   lost to shame, low, lusty, magisterial, manfully, marble,
   marblelike, massive, matter-of-fact, mean, merciless, methodical,
   mid, mightily, mighty, miserable, monophthongal, most, much,
   muscle-bound, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, near, near at hand,
   nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nervy, never idle, nigh, nigh about,
   no picnic, nonporous, not easy, not far, obdurate, obfuscated,
   obscure, obscured, obstinate, occlusive, onerous, only a step,
   open, operose, operosely, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive,
   orthodox, osseous, overtechnical, oxytone, pachydermatous, packed,
   painful, painfully, palatal, palatalized, paroxysmal, penetrating,
   penniless, perplexed, perplexing, perseveringly, persistent,
   persistently, petrified, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
   phonetic, phonic, physiologically addictive, piercing, pitch,
   pitched, pitiless, plain, poignant, poor, positive, posttonic,
   potent, poverty-stricken, powerful, practical, practically,
   pragmatic, procrustean, profound, proof against,
   psychologically addictive, puissant, pungent, purist, puristic,
   puritan, puritanic, puzzling, racking, real, realistic,
   red-blooded, relentless, relentlessly, remorseless, resistant,
   resistive, retroflex, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous,
   robust, robustious, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, ropy,
   rough, rounded, rugged, ruthless, savage, scabrous, scrambled,
   searching, seared, sedulous, sedulously, semivowel, serious,
   serried, set, set with thorns, severe, severely, shameless, sharp,
   shooting, sinewy, sinister, slavish, sleepless, sober, soft, solid,
   solidified, sonant, sound, sour, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic,
   spiny, spiritedly, spirituous, stabbing, stable, stalwart, stark,
   steadfastly, steady, steeled against, steellike, steely, steep,
   stern, sticky, stiff, stinging, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted,
   stopped, stout, straight, straightforward, straightlaced,
   straining, straitlaced, strapping, strenuous, strenuously,
   stressed, stressful, strict, stringent, stringy, strong,
   strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stubborn,
   studiously, sturdy, substantial, surd, sure-enough, syllabic,
   systematic, tangled, tart, tenacious, tense, terrible,
   the hard way, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick-growing,
   thick-skinned, thickset, thorny, throaty, ticklish, tireless,
   tiring, toilsome, toilsomely, tonal, tonic, tooth and nail,
   tormenting, torturous, tough, tough as leather, tricky,
   troublesome, troublous, trying, twangy, tyrannical, unabject,
   unaccented, unaffected, unalterable, unavoidable, unbending,
   unblushing, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned,
   uncompromising, uncontrite, undeniable, unemotional, unfalteringly,
   unfavorable, unfeeling, unflagging, unforgiving, unfriendly,
   ungentle, ungiving, unidealistic, unkind, unmelted, unmerciful,
   unmoved, unnatural, unpitiful, unpitying, unpleasant,
   unquestionable, unrelenting, unremitting, unremorseful,
   unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unrounded, unsentimental,
   unsleeping, unsoftened, unsolvable, unsparing, unstressed,
   unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untiring, untiringly, untouched,
   untoward, unvarnished, unwearied, unyielding, uphill, urgently,
   vehement, velar, verifiable, vigorous, vigorously, vinous,
   violently, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
   voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wearing, wearisome, wearying,
   well-built, well-constructed, well-defined, well-founded,
   well-grounded, well-made, well-nigh, wicked, wide, winy, wiry,
   with a kick, with a will, with effort, within call, within earshot,
   within hearing, within reach, without mercy, wretched, zealous,
   zealously

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