hardcore

comparative more hardcore · superlative most hardcore · alternative hard-core

1. Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.

   He's a hardcore gamer.

   Synonyms: diehard, steely-eyed, tough as nails, gung ho

2. So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
3. colloquialParticularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.

   That show was hardcore, dude.

4. gamesRequiring a large amount of practice and skill to complete, usually with extreme penalties for failure, e.g. permadeath.

   Elden Ring is known for being one of the most hardcore open-world RPGs in existence.

5. Resistant to change.
6. Obscene or explicit.
7. lifestyleDepicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
8. entertainmentFaster or more intense than the regular style.

alternative hard-core

1. uncountableBroken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.

   You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

   2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)

2. Several music genres, including:
   1. uncountableHardcore punk.

      Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.

      1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10

   2. uncountableGangsta rap.
   3. uncountableHardcore techno.
   4. uncountableJungle.

      1 more example

      Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.

      1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire

   5. uncountableOutlaw country.

alternative hard-core

1. colloquialnot comparableIn a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.