hard-hitting

adjective

Aggressively vigorous or forceful.

Meanings

adjectivehard-hitting (comparative more hard-hitting or harder-hitting, superlative most hard-hitting or hardest-hitting)

comparative more hard-hitting · comparative harder-hitting · superlative most hard-hitting · superlative hardest-hitting

  1. Aggressively vigorous or forceful.

    The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.

    2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan
    2 more examples

    A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.

    2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33

    I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.

    2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecharacterized by or full of force and vigor

adjectiveaggressively and persistently persuasive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål hardtslående
  • hardtslåendehard-hitting
Polish ostry, mocny
  • ostryhard-hitting
  • mocnyhard-hitting
  • bezkompromisowyhard-hitting
Cite this entry
APA

hard-hitting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting

MLA

“hard-hitting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hard-hitting,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting.

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