Hard and Smart

Hard

Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

Smart and hard are semantically related in forceful topic. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Hard".

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

Smart

Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.

Hard and smart are semantically related in stinging topic. Sometimes you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / DuckTales Self-Made Man: Scrooge got his fortune by working hard and smart his entire life.
  • Film / Napoleon Dynamite Nerd: In an odd case, Napoleon isn't even particularly smart or hard-working, but has all the cornerstones of a stereotypical nerd - poor social skills, awkward posture, mouth breathing, eccentric habits, thick, ugly glasses, crappy fashion sense... Nipple and Dimed: Cow nipples that is.
  • Billy Cranston was the first PR smart guy, and it's hard to find one since who's embodied the trope as much as him.
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