Translation Japanese English: 硬い

1 adamant, adamantine, blunt, candid, fast, firm, forthright, frank, free-spoken, inexorable, intransigent, loyal, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, solid, staunch, steadfast, steady, stiff, straight-from-the-shoulder, strong, sure, tight, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unswerving, unwavering.

2 arduous, austere, awkward, backbreaking, callous, difficult, dour, embarrassing, fibrous, forbidding, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, heavy, indurate, knockout, laborious, operose, pachydermatous, punishing, rocky, rough, severe, sinewy, stern, sticky, stiff, stifling, stringy, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, toilsome, tough, toughened, unchewable, unenviable, unyielding.

3 arduous, backbreaking, baffling, elusive, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, intemperate, knotty, laborious, operose, problematic, problematical, punishing, toilsome, tough, toughened.

4 arduous, backbreaking, concentrated, difficult, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, intemperate, knockout, laborious, operose, punishing, severe, strong, surd, toilsome, tough, unvoiced, voiceless.

5 arduous, backbreaking, demanding, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, intense, laborious, operose, potent, punishing, rugged, severe, stiff, strong, terrible, tight, toilsome, tough, wicked.

6 aroused, blue, hard, hard-shelled, obstinate, puritanic, puritanical, strained, stubborn, tense, unregenerate, wound up.

7 bad, baffling, elusive, hard, knotty, problematic, problematical, ruffianly, rugged, sturdy, tough, toughened.

8 bad, beefy, big, brawny, buirdly, burly, compact, forte, full-blooded, hard, hardy, harsh, hearty, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, loud, lusty, muscular, potent, powerful, red-blooded, sinewy, solid, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, thick, thickset, tough, warm.

9 bad, big, firm, hard, harsh, impregnable, intense, inviolable, mighty, potent, powerful, resistant, robust, secure, solid, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, substantial, tolerant, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

10 baffling, elusive, firm, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough, toughened.

11 buckram, contrary, dependable, fast, firm, formal, good, hard, honest, impregnable, inviolable, loyal, obstinate, perverse, reliable, rigid, safe, secure, solid, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, tight, tough, toughened, true, truehearted, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wayward.

12 buckram, contrary, dependable, fast, firm, good, hard, honest, impregnable, inviolable, loyal, obstinate, perverse, reliable, rigid, safe, secure, solid, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, stubborn, sure, tough, toughened, true, truehearted, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unregenerate, unshakable, unwavering, wayward.

13 concrete, firm, massive, monolithic, solid, strong, substantial, unanimous, whole.

14 consistent, firm, solid, uniform.

15 definite, fixed, flat, frozen, immovable, immoveable, lasting, permanent, rigid, set, stabile, steady, tight, unmovable.

16 determined, dictated, fit, fixed, hardened, laid, located, placed, primed, rigid, set, situated.

17 durable, firm, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, robust, solid, strong, substantial, well.

18 fast, firm, immobile, loyal, solid, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unfluctuating, unshakable, unwavering.

19 firm, fixed, hard, rigid, set, solid, tough, toughened.

20 firm, hardy, impregnable, inviolable, secure, solid, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable.

21 firm, hearty, satisfying, self-colored, self-coloured, solid, square, strong, substantial, unanimous, upstanding, whole.

22 fixed, inflexible, rigid, set, stiff, straight, strict, unbending, unbent, unbowed.

23 hard, rough, sturdy, tough, toughened, unsmooth.

24 hardened, tempered, tough, toughened, treated.

25 hardy, impregnable, inviolable, obstinate, robust, secure, stalwart, stout, strong, stubborn, sturdy, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable, unregenerate.

26 resolute, tough, toughened.