Hard to please
Hard to please adjective - (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster".
Trying and hard to please are semantically related. in unmanageable socially topic. In some cases you can use "Trying" instead an adjective phrase "Hard to please".
Trying
Trying adjective - Difficult to endure.
Hard to please and trying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard to please" instead an adjective "Trying".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- demanding and hard to please
- demanding and trying
- awkward and hard to please
- awkward and trying
- difficult and hard to please
- difficult and trying
- rough and hard to please
- rough and trying
- tough and hard to please
- tough and trying
- troublesome and hard to please
- troublesome and trying
- perverse and hard to please
- perverse and trying
Both terms in one sentence
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She has the curls, the laugh and tries very hard to please her classmates with her fortune, but ultimately ends up trying way too hard.
Source: Ojou - When this trope wasn't intentionally invoked, common causes include: a new author got to write the character, he was trying too hard to please the audience, or he just got carried away with his favorite character.
Source: Temporary Super Star
Cite this Source
Trying and Hard to please. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard_to_please/trying
Hard to please & Trying. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard_to_please/trying>.
Trying or Hard to please. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard_to_please/trying.
