(physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
(personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
My father / Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.
What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices?
His degree was hard earned.
The vehicle moves hard.
The question is hard set.
At the intersection, bear hard left.
whose house joined hard to the synagogue
It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
A hard diamond.
A hard problem.
A hard life.
A hard evidence.
I'm hard.
by the way, this is the hardest part
Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.
a hard problem
Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
a hard life
a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character
The stag was too hard for the horse.
a power which will be always too hard for them
hard evidence
This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.
At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.
There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".
Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j
We need both a digital archive and a hard archive.