1. Malaisé.
2. Pénible.
1. Disturbingly provocative; SYN. intriguing.
2. Stimulating interest or thought; SYN. thought-provoking.
ETYM From Difficulty.
1. Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; SYN. hard.
2. Requiring much effort and trouble.
1. Not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated
2. Metaphorically hard
3. Dried out
4. Into a solid condition
5. Unfortunate or hard to bear; SYN. tough.
6. Very strong or vigorous; SYN. knockout, severe.
7. Having a high alcoholic content; SYN. strong.
8. Said of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; SYN. heavy.
9. Permanent, fixed, or physically defined; unchangeable by the ordinary operation of a computer system. See also hard copy, hard error, hard return, hard-sectored disk. Compare soft (definition 1).
10. Retaining magnetization even in the absence of an external magnetic field. Compare soft (definition 2).
1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots
2. Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
1. Not given to gentleness or sentimentality
2. Physically toughened; SYN. toughened.
3. Tough to cut or chew.