These are the meanings of the letters HRAD when you unscramble them.
- Hard (adv.)
Close or near.
- Hard (adv.)
So as to raise difficulties.
- Hard (adv.)
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
- Hard (adv.)
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
- Hard (adv.)
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
- Hard (adv.)
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
- Hard (n.)
A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
- Hard (superl.)
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.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
- Hard (superl.)
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.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
- Hard (superl.)
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
- Hard (superl.)
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
- Hard (superl.)
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.
- Hard (superl.)
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
- Hard (superl.)
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Hard (superl.)
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
- Hard (superl.)
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
- Hard (v. t.)
To harden; to make hard.