Meanings
adjectivehardsome (comparative more hardsome, superlative most hardsome)
comparative more hardsome · superlative most hardsome
- Characterised by hardness; stern; severe; difficult.
Her daily life is very hardsome and full of continuous labour.
1992, Bhanu Pratap Chaurasia, Women's Status in India: Policies and Programmes1 more example
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a hardsome face on a story.
1854, Leigh Hunt, Essays and Miscellanies
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*harduz
- Proto-West Germanic*hard(ī)
- Old Englishheard
- Middle Englishhard
- Englishhard
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishhardsome
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