adjadj.allnot easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endureAttributes:difficultness difficulty
Synset:difficult
Examples:- a difficult task
- nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access
- difficult times
- why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
Antonyms:easy
Derivationally Related Form:difficultnesshardness
Inherited Hypernyms:difficult
Similar to:ambitious challenging arduous awkward embarrassing sticky unenviable baffling elusive knotty problematic problematical tough catchy tricky delicate ticklish touchy fractious hard-fought herculean nasty tight rocky rough rugged tough serious tall thorny troublesome trying vexed
See also:demanding effortful hard
adjadj.alldispassionateExamples:- took a hard look
- a hard bargainer
Antonyms:soft
Derivationally Related Form:hardness
Inherited Hypernyms:hard
Similar to:calculating calculative conniving scheming shrewd case-hardened hard-boiled hardened steely
See also:difficult hard insensitive merciless tough unmerciful
adjadj.allresisting weight or pressureAttributes:hardness
Antonyms:soft
Derivationally Related Form:hardness
Inherited Hypernyms:hard
Similar to:adamantine al dente corneous hornlike horny firm solid granitelike granitic rocklike stony hardened set petrous stonelike semihard steely erect tumid unyielding woody
adj satadj.allvery strong or vigorousSynset:knockout severe
Examples:- strong winds
- a hard left to the chin
- a knockout punch
- a severe blow
Antonyms:weak
Derivationally Related Form:severeness
Inherited Hypernyms:hard
Similar to:strong
adj satadj.allcharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effortSynset:arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:effortless
Derivationally Related Form:heavinessarduousnesslaboroperosenesshardnesslaboriousnesstoilsomeness
Inherited Hypernyms:arduous
Similar to:effortful
adjadj.allproduced without vibration of the vocal cordsSynset:surd unvoiced voiceless
Examples:- unvoiced consonants such as 'p' and 'k' and 's'
Antonyms:voiced
Derivationally Related Form:voicelessness
Inherited Hypernyms:unvoiced
Similar to:whispered
adj satadj.allgiven to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquorsSynset:heavy intemperate
Antonyms:nonindulgent
Derivationally Related Form:intemperateness
Inherited Hypernyms:intemperate
Similar to:indulgent
adj satadj.allunfortunate or hard to bearSynset:tough
Examples:- had hard luck
- a tough break
Antonyms:good
Derivationally Related Form:hardness
Inherited Hypernyms:hard
Similar to:bad
advadv.allindulging excessivelySynset:heavily intemperately
Antonyms:lightly
Pertainyms:intemperate
Inherited Hypernyms:heavily