HARD SIGN Synonyms

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• not easily borne; wearing

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• characterized by or performed with much energy or force

• taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• The Cyrillic letter Ъ/ъ, which in modern languages serves to denote a hard (non-palatalized) consonant.