| Main Entry: | hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, exhausting |
Synonyms: |
Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, bothersome, burdensome, complicated, demanding, difficile, distressing, effortful, exacting, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, hairy*, heavy*, intricate, involved, irksome, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, merciless, murder, onerous, operose, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, serious, severe, slavish, sticky, strenuous, terrible, tiring, toilful, toilsome, tough, troublesome, unsparing, uphill battle, uphill, wearing, wearisome, wearying |
Antonyms: |
easy, facile, mild, simple |
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
Synonyms: |
Herculean task, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, rotten luck, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, tough break, tough luck, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, uphill battle, vicissitude, want, worry |
Antonyms: |
advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
| Main Entry: | hard work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult labor |
Synonyms: |
backbreaking work, donkeywork, drudgery, hard way, labor, long haul, tough grind, uphill battle |
| Main Entry: | uphill struggle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult project |
Synonyms: |
difficult task, hard work, tall order, tough assignment, uphill battle |
