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”People like themselves lived in hard, inner-city neighborhoods ” Hello, is hard an adjective in this sentence? What does the expression ”hard neighborhood” mean?

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exRanger profile picture exRangerJanuary 2022
In this instance ,”hard” is equivalent to ”difficult”, implying that daily existence in X neighborhood presents many hardships and, perhaps but not necessarily, danger(s).
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgFebruary 2022
    From American English speakers I’ve known and other contexts, the collocation ”hard neighborhood” has always pretty much had the meaning of a poor + dangerous neighbourhood.

    I guess that there is a regional spectrum of definition, as does exist with many expressions in American English.
AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgJanuary 2022
”a hard neighborhood” is an American English expression to describe a neighbourhood which is generally poor and with high rates of crime and violence.

You can easily see here that ”hard” in this phrase is an adjective.