Hard and Simple

Hard

Hard adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Usage example: a hard exam to pass

Simple is an antonym for hard in topics: difficult, soft, true, cruel, rocklike.

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

Simple

Simple adjective - Involving minimal difficulty or effort.
Usage example: I got all of the answers right because it was such a simple test

Hard is an antonym for simple in topics: clear, complicated.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Dance Dance Revolution Yet the first 90% of the song looks rather simple (almost extremely simple when compared to the other insanely hard 18's).
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Scratchfever, who is a saber-toothed lion, giving relationship advice:He's tried so very hard to drill these simple, simple lessons into your head. Relax.
  • In Spectrobes Origins the bosses are much harder than the random enemies, some enemies do have attack patterns and some defend but most of them die to simple attacks and aren't hard to beat.
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