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Hard can be a noun, an adverb or an adjective.
hard used as a noun:
- A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
hard used as an adverb:
- With much force or effort.
"He hit the puck hard up the ice." - With difficulty.
"His degree was hard earned." - Compactly.
"The lake had finally frozen hard."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
hard used as an adjective:
- Resistant to pressure.
- Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand
"a hard problem" - Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
"a hard life" - , severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable.
"hard evidence" - Of drink, strong.
- Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
"At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left." - Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Sexually aroused.
- Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- Of a ferromagnetic material, having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (c.f. soft)
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is hard?
- Adverb usage: He hit the puck hard up the ice.
- Adverb usage: They worked hard all week.
- Adverb usage: At the intersection, bear hard left.
- Adverb usage: The recession hit them especially hard.
- Adverb usage: Think hard on your choices.
- Adverb usage: His degree was hard earned.
- Adverb usage: The lake had finally frozen hard.
- Adjective usage: a hard problem
- Adjective usage: a hard life
- Adjective usage: hard evidence
- Adjective usage: At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hard are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hard, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
