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hard-hitting

hard-hitting adjective: aggressively vigorous or forceful.

Adjective

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

  1. Aggressively vigorous or forceful.
    • 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

hard-hitting meaning in Malayalam

hard-hitting in Malayalam

forthright, uncompromising, blunt
ആഞ്ഞടിക്കുന്ന മട്ടിലുള്ള, കഠിനമായി നിരൂപണം ചെയ്യുന്ന, രാജിപ്പെടാത്ത, വിട്ടുവീഴ്ചചെയ്യാത്ത, ഒത്തുതീർപ്പുകൾക്കു വഴങ്ങാത്ത, പൊരുത്തപ്പെടാത്ത

Forms of hard-hitting

comparativemore hard-hitting
comparativeharder-hitting
superlativemost hard-hitting
superlativehardest-hitting

Questions about hard-hitting

What does hard-hitting mean?
Hard-hitting means aggressively vigorous or forceful.
What is hard-hitting in Malayalam?
Hard-hitting in Malayalam is ആഞ്ഞടിക്കുന്ന മട്ടിലുള്ള, കഠിനമായി നിരൂപണം ചെയ്യുന്ന, രാജിപ്പെടാത്ത. See Hard-hitting meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hard-hitting?
Hard-hitting is an adjective.

Words near hard-hitting in the dictionary

  1. hard-hearted
  2. hard-heartedly
  3. hard-heartedness
  4. hard-heartednesses
  5. hard-hit
  6. hard-hitting
  7. hard-land
  8. hard-landed
  9. hard-landing
  10. hard-lands
  11. hard-launch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-hitting (page history and authors); hard-hitting (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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