hard
Definition of hard:
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part of speech: adverb
With urgency: with difficulty: close, near, as in HARD BY; HARD- A- LEE, i. e. close to the lee- side, etc.: earnestly: forcibly.
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part of speech: adjective
Not easily penetrated: firm: solid: difficult to understand or accomplish: difficult to bear: painful: unjust: difficult to please: unfeeling: severe: stiff: constrained.
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part of speech: adjective
Not easily penetrated; firm; solid; not soft; not easy to be done or executed; laborious; fatiguing; severe; oppressive; unkind; rough; sour, as applied to beer, & c.; unprosperous, as hard times; avaricious and exacting; in the fine arts, applied to a style which rejects the graces and too rigidly adheres to the mere mechanism of art.
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part of speech: adverb
Close; near; earnestly; diligently, as to read hard, to work hard; importunately; nimbly; with great force.
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Common misspellings:
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- haard (2.4%)
- hrad (4.1%)
- har (24.9%)
- harded (1.2%)
- tought (0.4%)
- yhard (0.8%)
- hurd (0.8%)
- hord (1.2%)
- ard (9.4%)
- ahard (1.6%)
- hars (2.0%)
- ahrd (22.0%)
- hatd (0.4%)
- hards (7.8%)
- harde (1.6%)
- hads (0.8%)
- gard (2.4%)
- ehard (0.4%)
- hadr (0.8%)
- hrd (4.9%)
- haed (0.8%)
- ared (0.4%)
- nhard (1.6%)
- permantly (0.4%)
- havd (0.4%)
- haerd (1.6%)
- harding (2.9%)
- hhard (1.6%)
Usage examples for hard:
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Hard to you, Shirley?
"Shirley" – Charlotte Brontë -
When I love I shall love hard
"Foes" – Mary Johnston -
It is not a hard thing to do, you see.
"Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales" – Leo Tolstoy -
It was hard but Daisy did it.
"Melbourne House" – Elizabeth Wetherell
