Hard and Soft

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Hard

Hard adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Usage example: a hard exam to pass
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Soft is an antonym for hard in topics: tough, exhausting, true, difficult, cruel.
Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

Soft

Soft adjective - Giving easily to the touch.
Usage example: soft mattresses make it very easy to fall asleep, but they have a tendency to get lumpy
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Hard is an antonym for soft in topics: yielding, velvety, faint, compassionate, stupid.
Nearby Words: soften, softness, softly, softening, softie
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  • Cool Car The 16.4 Grand Sport, that's the worlds fastest convertible sports car car, most other cars of it's type don't have a soft/hard, removable roof to preserve their high speed and aerodynamics.
    Source: Cool Car
  • Frothy Mugs of Water In the DuckTales episode "Sir Gyro de Gearloose", Gyro cools down a fire-breathing dragon with "cider," with no mention of whether it's hard or soft.
    Source: Frothy Mugs of Water
  • Since it aims to become a comic book film, it's very steered and doesn't seem to care about how hard or soft the AH is.
    Source: Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
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