What does harder mean?
Harder means comparative form of hard: more hard.
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/hɑːdə/ · adjective
comparative form of hard: more hard.
He is more likely to succeed because he tries harder.
Steel is harder than copper so we use steel tools to cut copper pipes.
For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.
Use harder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Harder means comparative form of hard: more hard.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He is more likely to succeed because he tries harder.
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