Another word for hard

Adamantine, forceful, Herculean, assiduous, austere, badass, Siberian, actual, alcoholic, addictive, after a struggle, acutely, cats and dogs, and bucketloads are another word for hard. Soft and light are the opposites of hard. On this page, find 288 synonyms for hard, parts of speech, and examples of hard sentences.

Hard synonyms

1. firm

  • Adamantine
  • As hard as iron
  • As hard as stone
  • Close-packed
  • Compact
  • Compacted
  • Compressed
  • Dense
  • Firm
  • Flinty
  • Frozen
  • Hardened
  • Impenetrable
  • Inflexible
  • Resistant
  • Rigid
  • Rocklike
  • Solid
  • Solidified
  • Steely
  • Stiff
  • Stony
  • Strong
  • Tough
  • Unbreakable
  • Unmalleable
  • Unpliable
  • Unyielding
  • Renitent

2. forceful

  • Forceful
  • Heavy
  • Hefty
  • Mighty
  • Powerful
  • Sharp
  • Smart
  • Strong
  • Vigorous
  • Violent
  • Tremendous

3. arduous

  • Herculean
  • Arduous
  • Back-breaking
  • Baffling
  • Bewildering
  • Challenging
  • Complex
  • Complicated
  • Demanding
  • Difficult
  • Enigmatic
  • Exacting
  • Exhausting
  • Exigent
  • Fatiguing
  • Formidable
  • Gnarly
  • Gruelling
  • Heavy
  • Hellish
  • Impenetrable
  • Incomprehensible
  • Insoluble
  • Insolvable
  • Intricate
  • Involved
  • Killing
  • Knackering
  • Knotty
  • Laborious
  • Mind-bending
  • Murderous
  • Mystifying
  • Onerous
  • Perplexing
  • Problematic
  • Punishing
  • Puzzling
  • Rigorous
  • Spiny
  • Strenuous
  • Tangled
  • Taxing
  • Testing
  • Thorny
  • Ticklish
  • Tiring
  • Toilsome
  • Tough
  • Unanswerable
  • Unfathomable
  • Uphill
  • Wearying
  • Wildering

4. diligent

  • Assiduous
  • Conscientious
  • Diligent
  • Earnest
  • Energetic
  • Enthusiastic
  • Hard-working
  • Indefatigable
  • Industrious
  • Keen
  • Persevering
  • Persistent
  • Sedulous
  • Unflagging
  • Untiring
  • Zealous
  • Studious

5. grim

  • Austere
  • Bad
  • Bleak
  • Dark
  • Difficult
  • Dire
  • Disagreeable
  • Distressing
  • Grim
  • Harsh
  • Insupportable
  • Intolerable
  • Painful
  • Severe
  • Spartan
  • Straitened
  • Tough
  • Unbearable
  • Uncomfortable
  • Unendurable
  • Unpleasant
  • Awful

6. strict

  • Badass
  • Callous
  • Cold-hearted
  • Cold
  • Cruel
  • Demanding
  • Exacting
  • Firm
  • Grim
  • Hard-boiled
  • Hard-hearted
  • Harsh
  • Heartless
  • Implacable
  • Inflexible
  • Intolerant
  • Intransigent
  • Lacking compassion
  • Merciless
  • Obdurate
  • Oppressive
  • Pitiless
  • Rigorous
  • Ruling with a rod of iron
  • Ruthless
  • Severe
  • Standing no nonsense
  • Stern
  • Strict
  • Stubborn
  • Tough
  • Tyrannical
  • Unbending
  • Uncompromising
  • Unfair
  • Unfeeling
  • Unfriendly
  • Unjust
  • Unkind
  • Unrelenting
  • Unsparing
  • Unsympathetic
  • Unyielding
  • Vicious
  • Solid

7. bitterly cold

  • Siberian
  • Arctic
  • Bitter
  • Bitterly cold
  • Bleak
  • Cold
  • Extreme
  • Freezing
  • Glacial
  • Harsh
  • Icy-cold
  • Icy
  • Polar
  • Severe
  • Baltic

8. reliable

  • Actual
  • Bare
  • Bold
  • Cold
  • Confirmed
  • Definite
  • Harsh
  • Indisputable
  • Plain
  • Reliable
  • True
  • Undeniable
  • Unquestionable
  • Unvarnished
  • Verifiable
  • Unembellished

9. alcoholic

  • Alcoholic
  • Inebriating
  • Intoxicating
  • Potent
  • Spirituous
  • Stiff
  • Strong
  • Vinous
  • Intoxicant

10. strong

  • Addictive
  • Causing dependency
  • Habit-forming
  • Harmful
  • Strong
  • Narcotic

11. diligently

  • After a struggle
  • All out
  • Arduously
  • Assiduously
  • Busily
  • Conscientiously
  • Diligently
  • Doggedly
  • Earnestly
  • Energetically
  • Enthusiastically
  • Indefatigably
  • Industriously
  • Intensely
  • Like billy-o
  • Like crazy
  • Like mad
  • Painfully
  • Persistently
  • Sedulously
  • Steadily
  • Untiringly
  • With application
  • With difficulty
  • With effort
  • With perseverance
  • Laboriously

12. forcefully

  • Acutely
  • Badly
  • Bucketloads
  • Buckets
  • Cats and dogs
  • Deeply
  • Energetically
  • Fiercely
  • Forcefully
  • Forcibly
  • Gravely
  • Grievously
  • Harshly
  • Heavily
  • In sheets
  • In torrents
  • Intensely
  • Keenly
  • Powerfully
  • Profoundly
  • Roughly
  • Seriously
  • Severely
  • Sharply
  • Stair rods
  • Steadily
  • Strenuously
  • Strongly
  • Vigorously
  • Violently
  • With all one's might
  • With force
  • With great effort
  • With might and main
  • With vigour
  • Pitchforks

Hard sentences

He worked hard all day.

The exam was really hard.

She hit the ball hard.

It's hard to stay awake.

Hard parts of speech

Adjective