hard

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with effort or force or vigor

   the team played hard

2. 2
   adv

   slowly and with difficulty

   prejudices die hard

3. 3
   adv

   causing great damage or hardship

   industries hit hard by the depression

4. 4
   adv

   with firmness

   held hard to the railing

5. 5
   adv

   earnestly or intently

   thought hard about it

6. 6
   adv

   with pain or distress or bitterness

   We took the rejection very hard.

7. 7
   adv

   very near or close in space or time

   it stands hard by the railroad tracks

8. 8
   adv

   into a solid condition

   concrete that sets hard within a few hours

Etymology

From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hard (“hard”), West Frisian hurd (“hard”), Alemannic German hert (“hard”), Bavarian hoat (“hard”), Central Franconian haat (“hard”), Dutch hard (“hard”), German hart (“hard”), Luxembourgish haart (“hard”), Danish, Swedish hård (“hard”), Faroese, Icelandic harður (“hard”), Norwegian Bokmål hard (“hard”), Norwegian Nynorsk hard, hard’u (“hard”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus, “hard”), Ancient Gree…