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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort: bitter, brutal, harsh, rough, severe. See COMFORT. 2. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, grim, harsh, severe, stark. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 3. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See HEAVY. 4. Established beyond a doubt: certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, positive, sure, unassailable, undeniable, undisputable, unquestionable. See CERTAIN, TRUE. 5. Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted, unfeeling. See ATTITUDE. 6. Not easy to do, achieve, or master: arduous, difficult, laborious, serious, tall, tough, uphill. See EASY. 7. Based on fact: factual. See REAL. 8. Unyielding to pressure or force: firm1, incompressible, solid. See RESIST, STRONG. 9. Containing alcohol: alcoholic, intoxicative, spirituous, strong. See INGESTION. 10. Physically toughened so as to have great endurance: hard-bitten, hard-handed, hardy, rugged, tough. Idioms: hard as nails. See CONTINUE, STRONG. 11. Indulging in drink to an excessive degree: heavy. Informal : two-fisted. See EXCESS. 12. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded, unromantic. See EXCITE, REAL. 13. Bitingly hostile: acrimonious, bitter, embittered, rancorous, resentful, virulent. See ATTITUDE, LOVE. 14. Conveying great physical force: heavy, hefty, powerful, severe. See BIG. 15. Rigorous and unsparing in treating others: demanding, exacting, harsh, rigid, severe, stern, strict, tough, unyielding. See EASY. | | ADVERB: | 1. To a point near in time, space, or relation: close, closely, near, nearby, nigh. See NEAR. 2. In a violent, strenuous way: fiercely, frantically, frenziedly, furiously, strenuously. See STRONG. 3. With effort: arduously, difficultly, heavily, laboriously. See EASY. 4. With intense energy and force: energetically, forcefully, forcibly, powerfully, vigorously. Idioms: hammer and tongs, tooth and nail, with might and main. See STRONG.
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