HARD-NOSED: Meaning and related words

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hard-nosed:

General (18 matching dictionaries)

hard-nosed: Merriam-Webster
hard-nosed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hard-nosed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hard-nosed, hard-nosed: Collins English Dictionary
hard-nosed: Vocabulary.com
Hard-nosed, hard-nosed: Wordnik
hard-nosed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hard-nosed: Wiktionary
hard-nosed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hard-nosed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hard-nosed: Infoplease Dictionary
hard-nosed: Dictionary.com
hard-nosed: Rhymezone
hard-nosed: FreeDictionary.org
hard-nosed: Mnemonic Dictionary
hard-nosed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hard-nosed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

hard-nosed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

hard-nosed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Hardheaded, stubborn.
▸ adjective:  (of a person) Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Opposite:

soft-hearted, lenient, compassionate, empathetic

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