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hard-and-fast

hard-and-fast adjective: strictly maintained; not subject to variation.

Adjective

hard-and-fast (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, etc) strictly maintained; not subject to variation
    • to stick to hard-and-fast rules
    Synonyms:
    strict

hard-and-fast meaning in Bengali and Sanskrit

hard-and-fast in Bengali

কঠোরভাবে পালিত, পরিবর্তনযোগ্য নয়

hard-and-fast in Sanskrit

hard-and-fast, dyed-in-the-wool
दृढ dṛḍhá

Synonyms of hard-and-fast

Forms of hard-and-fast

alternative formhard and fast

Origin of hard-and-fast

First attested 1867, originally of a ship on shore.

Questions about hard-and-fast

What does hard-and-fast mean?
Hard-and-fast means strictly maintained; not subject to variation.
What is hard-and-fast in Bengali?
Hard-and-fast in Bengali is কঠোরভাবে পালিত, পরিবর্তনযোগ্য নয়. See Hard-and-fast meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hard-and-fast?
Hard-and-fast is an adjective.

Words near hard-and-fast in the dictionary

  1. hard workers
  2. hard X-ray
  3. hard X-rays
  4. hard yakka
  5. hard yards
  6. hard-and-fast
  7. hard-arse
  8. hard-arses
  9. hard-ass
  10. hard-assed
  11. hard-assery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-and-fast (page history and authors); hard-and-fast (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दृढ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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