Hard and Mushy

Hard

Hard adjective - Resisting weight or pressure.

Mushy is an antonym for hard.

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Mushy

Mushy adjective - Giving easily to the touch.
Usage example: mushy fruit that was obviously overripe

Hard is an antonym for mushy in topics: romantic, doughy.

Nearby Words: mush, mushed, mushing

Both words in one sentence

  • Averted HARD in Halloween III, where a Stonehenge powered Halloween mask reduces one kid's head to a mushy puddle of snakes and bugs and thousands of off-screen children die in a similar manner.
  • The food is a mushy food that contains a lot of vitamins and proteins, and the contestants regularly express their dislike for being "Stuck on slop" and compete as hard as they can to not be the side that is forced to eat nothing but slop for a week.
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