Meaning of સખત in English

Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
So as to raise difficulties.
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Close or near.
To harden; to make hard.
A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
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.
Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
Strong; firm; compact.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
Able to withstand the cold of winter.
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Alt. of Lacustrine
Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.
Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.
of Rig
DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
In a rigid manner; stiffly.
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.
of Scourge
Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
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.
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
To make torpid; to benumb.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.
Somewhat stiff.
In a stiff manner.
A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
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.
In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.
of Stride
of Toil
Free from toil.
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
of Toughen