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Adjective hard has 11 senses

difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
hard - metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"
Antonyms: soft, coddled, pampered, spoiled, compliant, diffused, softened, easy, effeminate, weak, euphonious, liquid, mellow, mellowing
hard - not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"
Antonyms: soft, brushed, fleecy, napped, cheeselike, compressible, squeezable, cottony, cushioned, cushiony, padded, demulcent, emollient, salving, softening, downy, downlike, flossy, fluffy, flabby, flaccid, flocculent, woolly, wooly, yielding, mushy, overstuffed, softish, semisoft, spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike, velvet, velvety
hard, knockout, severe - very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
Antonym: weak (indirect, via strong)
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome - characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
Antonym: effortless (indirect, via effortful)
hard - of speech sounds
Antonyms: soft, fricative, sibilant, spirant, palatal, palatalized, palatalised
hard, heavy - of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
Antonym: temperate (indirect, via intemperate)
fermented, hard - having undergone fermentation; "hard cider"
Antonym: unsoured (indirect, via soured)
hard, strong - having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
Antonyms: nonalcoholic, soft (indirect, via alcoholic)
hard, tough - unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
Antonym: good (indirect, via bad)
hard - dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
Antonym: fresh (indirect, via stale)

Adverbial hard has 10 senses

hard - with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
Derived from adjective hard₅
hard, firmly - with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
hard - earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
hard, severely - causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
hard - slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
Derived from adjective hard₁
heavily, intemperately, hard - indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"
hard - into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
Derived from adjective hardened₄
hard - very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
hard - with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
hard - to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"