Hard Synonyms

Hard synonyms such as "bucketloads, adamantine, forceful, herculean, assiduous, austere, badass, siberian, actual, alcoholic, addictive, after a struggle, acutely, and badly". Hard is an adjective, and its antonyms are soft and light. Here are 287 another word for hard with example sentences.

Another word for Hard

1. firm

  • unyielding
  • unpliable
  • unmalleable
  • unbreakable
  • tough
  • strong
  • stony
  • stiff
  • steely
  • solidified
  • solid
  • rocklike
  • rigid
  • resistant
  • renitent
  • inflexible
  • impenetrable
  • hardened
  • frozen
  • flinty
  • firm
  • dense
  • compressed
  • compacted
  • compact
  • close-packed
  • as hard as stone
  • as hard as iron
  • adamantine

2. forceful

3. arduous

  • wildering
  • wearying
  • uphill
  • unfathomable
  • unanswerable
  • tough
  • toilsome
  • tiring
  • ticklish
  • thorny
  • testing
  • taxing
  • tangled
  • strenuous
  • spiny
  • rigorous
  • puzzling
  • punishing
  • problematic
  • perplexing
  • onerous
  • mystifying
  • murderous
  • mind-bending
  • laborious
  • knotty
  • knackering
  • killing
  • involved
  • intricate
  • insolvable
  • insoluble
  • incomprehensible
  • impenetrable
  • Herculean
  • hellish
  • heavy
  • gruelling
  • gnarly
  • formidable
  • fatiguing
  • exigent
  • exhausting
  • exacting
  • enigmatic
  • difficult
  • demanding
  • complicated
  • complex
  • challenging
  • bewildering
  • baffling
  • back-breaking
  • arduous

4. diligent

5. grim

6. strict

  • vicious
  • unyielding
  • unsympathetic
  • unsparing
  • unrelenting
  • unkind
  • unjust
  • unfriendly
  • unfeeling
  • unfair
  • uncompromising
  • unbending
  • tyrannical
  • tough
  • stubborn
  • strict
  • stern
  • standing no nonsense
  • solid
  • severe
  • ruthless
  • ruling with a rod of iron
  • rigorous
  • pitiless
  • oppressive
  • obdurate
  • merciless
  • lacking compassion
  • intransigent
  • intolerant
  • inflexible
  • implacable
  • heartless
  • harsh
  • hard-hearted
  • hard-boiled
  • grim
  • firm
  • exacting
  • demanding
  • cruel
  • cold-hearted
  • cold
  • callous
  • badass

7. bitterly cold

8. reliable

9. alcoholic

  • vinous
  • strong
  • stiff
  • spirituous
  • potent
  • intoxicating
  • intoxicant
  • inebriating
  • alcoholic

10. strong

  • strong
  • narcotic
  • harmful
  • habit-forming
  • causing dependency
  • addictive

11. diligently

  • with perseverance
  • with effort
  • with difficulty
  • with application
  • untiringly
  • steadily
  • sedulously
  • persistently
  • painfully
  • like mad
  • like crazy
  • like billy-o
  • laboriously
  • intensely
  • industriously
  • indefatigably
  • enthusiastically
  • energetically
  • earnestly
  • doggedly
  • diligently
  • conscientiously
  • busily
  • assiduously
  • arduously
  • all out
  • after a struggle

12. forcefully

  • with vigour
  • with might and main
  • with great effort
  • with force
  • with all one's might
  • violently
  • vigorously
  • strongly
  • strenuously
  • steadily
  • stair rods
  • sharply
  • severely
  • seriously
  • roughly
  • profoundly
  • powerfully
  • pitchforks
  • keenly
  • in torrents
  • intensely
  • in sheets
  • heavily
  • harshly
  • grievously
  • gravely
  • forcibly
  • forcefully
  • fiercely
  • energetically
  • deeply
  • cats and dogs
  • buckets
  • bucketloads
  • badly
  • acutely

How to Use hard in a Sentence

Affordable accommodation is hard to find.

Elite athletes train very hard daily.

He studied hard, but failed the test.

It's hard to stay awake.

People associate success with hard work.

She studied hard and was rewarded accordingly.

The exam was really hard.