hard-fought

1. 1.

   requiring great effort

   “a hard-fought primary”

   Similardifficult

Questions about hard-fought

What does hard-fought mean?

hard-fought means "requiring great effort".

How many syllables are in hard-fought?

hard-fought has 2 syllables and divides as hard--fought under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hard-fought a common word?

hard-fought is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.