hard-wearing
hard-wearing adjective: able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
Adjective
hard-wearing (comparative more hard-wearing, superlative most hard-wearing)
- Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
- Throughout B.R. activity to improve drainage and ballast, to lay in more long-welded rails [...] and concrete sleepers, and to provide more hard-wearing pointwork and crossings will be intensified in the next four years.1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 411
- Synonyms:
- heavy-duty
hard-wearing meaning in Malayalam
hard-wearing in Malayalam
- lasting, durable, strong
- വേഗം കേടാകാത്ത, മുരണ, ഉറപ്പുള്ള, ഈടുനില്ക്കുന്ന, ഈടുറ്റ, ഏറെക്കാലം നിലനിൽക്കുന്ന
Synonyms of hard-wearing
Forms of hard-wearing
| comparative | more hard-wearing |
|---|---|
| superlative | most hard-wearing |
| alternative form | hardwearing |
Origin of hard-wearing
From hard + wearing.
Questions about hard-wearing
- What does hard-wearing mean?
- Hard-wearing means able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable.
- What is hard-wearing in Malayalam?
- Hard-wearing in Malayalam is വേഗം കേടാകാത്ത, മുരണ, ഉറപ്പുള്ള. See Hard-wearing meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is hard-wearing?
- Hard-wearing is an adjective.
Words near hard-wearing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-wearing (page history and authors); hard-wearing (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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