Meanings
comparative more hard-hitting · comparative harder-hitting · superlative most hard-hitting · superlative hardest-hitting
- 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 Cosmopolitan2 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 33I 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
hard-hitting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting
“hard-hitting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hard-hitting,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-hitting.
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