Hardy
Robust-sounding family name
Hardy is a surname, notably of Thomas Hardy, the English novelist and poet known for tragic rural tales like *Tess of the d'Urbervilles*, and Oliver Hardy of the Laurel and Hardy comedy duo.
The name also appears in the Hardy Boys, fictional teenage detectives in a long-running book series. (Lowercase hardy means robust or resilient.)
surname
Masculine name meaning twin
author · comedian · actor · writer · Wessex · Tess · Jude · slapstick
Thomas
Masculine name meaning twin
poet · author · comedian · actor · writer · Wessex · Tess · Jude · slapstick · duo
detectives
Those who solve crimes
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- Admiralsadmiral, Nelson, Nimitz, Halsey, Dewey
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- hard workSustained strenuous effort
- work hardExpend serious effort
- hard timeStruggle or imprisonment
- hard driveComputer's internal storage device
- the hard wayThrough difficulty, not ease
- hard to believeDifficult to accept as true
hard, harden, hardship, hardened, hardening, hardiness, hardily, hardihood, hardener