katı, sert, pek

Turkish - English

Definition of katı, sert, pek in Turkish English dictionary

{s} hard

severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal

With difficulty

His degree was hard earned.

metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"

To harden; to make hard

If you are hard on someone, you treat them severely or unkindly. Don't be so hard on him. soft Hard is also an adverb. He said the security forces would continue to crack down hard on the protestors

to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

A problem is hard for a class if everything in the class can be reduced to it (under some notion of reduction) If a problem is in a class and hard for the class, then it's complete for the class Beware; hard and complete are not synonyms!

If someone is hard put to do something or, in British English if they are hard pushed to do something, they have great difficulty doing it. Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity

Unquestionable

Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds

Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly

earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"

pungent tea, desired in some Assam teas

If you strike or take hold of something hard, you strike or take hold of it with a lot of force. I kicked a dustbin very hard and broke my toe. Hard is also an adjective. He gave her a hard push which toppled her backwards into an armchair

Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly

unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"

A beer with some astringency and perhaps excess bitterness, not toned or softened by body or aromatic notes

Tending toward steeliness, but not quite shrill Often the result of a moderate frequency response hump centered around 6kHz, sometimes also caused by small amounts of distortion

Hyphenation

ka·tı, sert·, pek