Meanings
plural hard times
- colloquialcountableDifficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
1 more example
The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.
2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna difficulty that can be overcome with effort
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 艱難時期 /艰难时期, 困難 /困难
- 艱難時期 /艰难时期 (jiānnán shíqī)difficulties
- 困難 /困难 (kùnnan)difficulties
- 受罪 (shòuzuì)difficulties
- 麻煩 /麻烦 (máfan)difficulties
Finnish hankaluudet, vaikeudet
- hankaluudetdifficulties
- vaikeudetdifficulties
French problèmes
- problèmesdifficulties
German schwere Zeit
- schwere Zeitdifficulties
Spanish mal trago
- mal tragodifficulties
Cite this entry
hard time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20time
“hard time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20time. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hard time,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard%20time.
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