All hard as nails synonyms
adj hard as nails
- bent β Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- persevering β displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- decided β Decided means clear and definite.
- settled β to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- prepared β properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- benumbed β made numb; very cold
- accustomed β If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
- habituated β to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- inured β to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- savage β fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- fit β adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- reserved β kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.
- crisp β Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- iron β Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20Β°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- packed β transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load: pack animals.
- rocky β inclined or likely to rock; tottering; shaky; unsteady.
- set β to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- strong β having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- compressed β Compressed air or gas is squeezed into a small space or container and is therefore at a higher pressure than normal. It is used especially as a source of power for machines.
- consolidated β consolidated (def 2).
- hard-handed β oppressive or tyrannical; stern or cruel.
- indurated β to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- impassible β incapable of suffering pain.
- impassive β without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- unimpressionable β easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- potent β (of a cross) having a crosspiece at the extremity of each arm: a cross potent.
- powerful β physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- bent on β curved; crooked: a bent bow; a bent stick.
- constant β You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there.
- earnest β serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.
- intent β something that is intended; purpose; design; intention: The original intent of the committee was to raise funds.
- unfaltering β to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unflinching β not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
- unwavering β to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unhesitating β without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- mean business β an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- on ice β the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- set on β to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- strong-minded β having a forceful and independent mind.
- contemptuous β If you are contemptuous of someone or something, you do not like or respect them at all.
noun hard as nails
- heart β Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- backbone β Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- constancy β Constancy is the quality of staying the same even though other things change.
- permanence β the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.
- guts β the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- gutsy β having a great deal of courage or nerve: a gutsy lampooner of the administration.
- moxie β vigor; verve; pep.
- imperishability β not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- starch β a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- lasting β continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.