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hard

adv. with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"

hard

adv. to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

hard

adv. into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"

hard, firmly

adv. with firmness; "held hard to the railing"

hard

adj. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

hard

adj. resisting weight or pressure

hard

adj. dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";

hard

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

heavy, hard

adj. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

hard, strong

adj. being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"

unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard

adj. produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"

intemperate, hard, heavy

adj. given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"

luxuriously

adv. in an indulgently luxurious manner; "she sprawled out luxuriously on the sofa"

unfeeling

adj. devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

intense

adj. possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"

solid

adj. of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state"

addled

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

spoiled, spoilt

adj. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"

rotten

adj. having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"

cold

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

putrescent

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

flyblown, maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

limp, wilted

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

moldy, mouldy, musty

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

rancid

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

unrestrained, uncontrolled, untempered

adj. not moderated or controlled; "his untempered individualism"

intoxicant, intoxicating

adj. causing

laced, spiked

adj. having alcohol added: "a cup of brandy-laced coffee"; "he drank too much of the spiked punch"

spirituous, spiritous

adj. containing or of the nature of alcohol; "spiritous beverages"; "spirituous liquors"

decadent, effete

adj. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous

adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"

hedonic, hedonistic, epicurean

adj. devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"

pampering(a)

adj. gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"; "a very pampering cruise experience"

lightly

adv. to a slight degree; "her speech is only lightly accented"

soft

adj. (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')

soft

adj. willing to negotiate and compromise

downy, downlike, flossy, fluffy

adj. like down or as soft as down

spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike

adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"

soft, subdued

adj. not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"

voiced, sonant, soft

adj. produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'";

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