Hard Synonyms

Bucketloads , adamantine, forceful, herculean, assiduous, austere, badass, siberian, actual, alcoholic, addictive, after a struggle, acutely, and badly are synonyms for hard; soft and light are antonyms of hard. On this page, you will find 288 another word for hard.

288 Another Word for Hard

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.