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(adj)
Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
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(of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
(of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
Very bad or intense.
Difficult, hard to do.
Difficult to endure; arduous.
(figuratively, by extension) Hardened by experience.
(adv)
In a severe manner.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
Obsolete form of laborious. [Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.]
Hard to deal with, complicated.
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
Somewhat hard.
Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
(figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
(loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
Achieved through a large effort.
Requiring or showing effort.
To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
(manner) In a firm or definite or strong manner.
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
Not smooth; uneven.
Alternative spelling of gruelling. [Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.]
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
In an intemperate manner.
(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
Causing trouble or anxiety.
Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering.
Extremely afraid.
Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.
(of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
annoyed, irritated or distressed
Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
Dubious or ambiguous.
Of low quality.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
That has become or been made sour.
Important; weighty; not insignificant.
(of a tune or phrase) Instantly appealing and memorable.
Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
Fixed in position.
Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
(derogatory) Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
That connives; conspiratorial.
(obsolete) marmoreal.
Going up a slope or a hill.
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
Swollen, enlarged, bulging.
Rendering someone unconscious.
Not padded.
Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
(figuratively) Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
(n)
(UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
(phonetics) Articulated at the velum or soft palate.
(phonetics) Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.
(not comparable) Having the ability to calculate.
Of, pertaining to, or involving calculation.
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.
(of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
Alternative form of slaty. [Resembling the rock slate.]
As hard as stone.
Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hardness and resoluteness.
(literally, figuratively) Resembling stone or a stone.
Resembling a rock.
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated.
(slang) Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
Projecting like a horn.
(anatomy) Of the dense portion of the temporal bone that protects the inner ear.
Of a light grey colour as slate.
Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
Produced by fermentation.
containing a horny substance; horny
(figuratively) Troublesome or vexatious.
Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold, smooth, white, etc.; marblelike.
Callous and unsentimental. (of a person, especially a detective)
Resembling granite.
Of, pertaining to, or containing granite.
Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Lacking moderation, temper or control.
The quality of being hard.
(degree) Barely, only just, almost not.
Stiff, rather than flexible.