Meaning of कठोर in English

Hardened; indurated.
Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
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Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
Rough; disagreeable; grating
disagreeable to the touch.
disagreeable to the taste.
disagreeable to the ear.
Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather.
Growing stiff or numb.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
The black tern.
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
Fig.: The post of management or direction.
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Without a grave; unburied.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Somewhat hard.
Burdensome; oppressive.
Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Like a rig or wanton.
Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Violent.
Made of oak.
Full of, or abounding in, dew.
Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.
Full of ruth
Pitiful; tender.
Full of sorrow; woeful.
Causing sorrow.
A director.
Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Loud; boisterous.
Making a shrill, creaking sound.
A stock of breeding mares.
Scrofulous; having struma.
Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Thin; slender; small; minute.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
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