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hard nose

hard nose is the alternative form of hard-nose.

hard nose is the alternative form of hard-nosed.

Meaning of hard-nose

Noun

hard-nose (plural hard-noses)

  1. A hard-nosed person; one who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Meaning of hard-nosed

Adjective

hard-nosed

  1. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.
  2. (idiomatic) Hardheaded, stubborn.
  3. Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.

Forms of hard nose

Noun
pluralhard noses
Adjective
comparativemore hard nose
superlativemost hard nose

Questions about hard nose

What is hard nose the alternative form of?
Hard nose is the alternative form of hard-nose.

Words near hard nose in the dictionary

  1. hard mutation
  2. hard mutations
  3. hard nail
  4. hard nails
  5. hard news
  6. hard nose
  7. hard nosed
  8. hard noses
  9. hard nut to crack
  10. hard nuts to crack
  11. hard of hearing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard nose (page history and authors); hard-nose (page history and authors); hard-nosed (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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