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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort: bitter, brutal, hard, harsh, rough. See COMFORT. 2. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, grim, hard, harsh, stark. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 3. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See HEAVY. 4. Having great consequence or weight: earnest1, grave2, heavy, momentous, serious, weighty. See IMPORTANT. 5. Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example: dangerous, grave2, grievous, serious. See HELP. 6. Conveying great physical force: hard, heavy, hefty, powerful. See BIG. 7. Rigorous and unsparing in treating others: demanding, exacting, hard, harsh, rigid, stern, strict, tough, unyielding. See EASY.
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