| 单词 | hardness |
| 释义 | hardness (once / 1429 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY hardness: hardnesses+/hard: harden, harder, hardest, hardly, hardness, hards, semihard/harden: hardened, hardening, hardens/hardened: hardeneder, hardenedest, unhardened/hardening: hardenings/hardly: hardlys USAGE EXAMPLESWhy are the arts and humanities considered more female, emotion-driven and “soft,” while the sciences are seen as male, “hard” — and why is hardness better? Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) The book’s careful rendering of Putin’s hardness and shrewdness suggests that his American admirer is badly outmatched. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) Her heel grazing the cold hardness of his leg, lying beside them, hastily unstrapped. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) 1 n the quality of being difficult to do 2he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness Syn|Hyper ruggedness difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult 1n the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale Ant|Hypo|Hyper softness the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded firmness the property of being unyielding to the touch incompressibilitythe property of being incompressible body, consistence, consistency, eubstance the property of holding together and retaining its shape 2n devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness Syn|Hypo|Hyper callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness dullness lack of sensibility insensitiveness, insensitivity the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment 3n excessive sternness 3Syn|Hyper harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness sternness, strictness uncompromising resolution n a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present Hyper quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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