hard to please

1. 1.

   (of persons) fussy and demanding

   “his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster”

   “was very hard to please”

   Synonymshard-to-please

   Similardemanding

Questions about hard to please

What does hard to please mean?

hard to please means "(of persons) fussy and demanding".

What is another word for hard to please?

Close synonyms include hard-to-please. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hard to please a common word?

hard to please is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.