Firm; solid; compact; not easily penetrated, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Difficult; not easy to the intellect. In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter 3:16. The hard causes they brought to Moses. Exodus 18:26.

Difficult of accomplishment; not easy to be done or executed. A hard task; a disease hard to cure. Is any thing too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14.

Full of difficulties or obstacles; not easy to be traveled; as a hard way.

Painful; difficult; distressing. Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Genesis 35:16.

Laborious; fatiguing; attended with difficulty or pain, or both; as hard work or labor; hard duty; hard service.

Oppressive; rigorous; severe; cruel; as hard bondage; a hard master. Exodus 1:14; Isaiah 14:3.

Unfeeling; insensible; not easily moved by pity; not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections; as a hard heart.

Severe; harsh; rough; abusive. Have you given him any hard words of late?

Unfavorable; unkind; implying blame of another; as hard thoughts.

Severe; rigorous; oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain; hard conditions.

Unreasonable; unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case.

Severe; pinching with cold; rigorous; tempestuous; as a hard winter; hard weather.

Powerful; forcible; urging; pressing close on. The stag was too hard for the horse. The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.

Austere; rough; acid; sour; as liquors. The cider is hard.

Harsh; stiff; forced; constrained; unnatural. Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself. His diction is hard, his figures too bold.

Not plentiful; not prosperous; pressing; distressing; as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce.

Avaricious; difficult in making bargains; close. Matthew 25:24.

Rough; of coarse features; as a hard face or countenance.

Austere; severe; rigorous.