hardball
hardball noun: in baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
Noun
hardball (countable and uncountable, plural hardballs)
Adjective
hardball (comparative more hardball, superlative most hardball)
Verb
hardball (third-person singular simple present hardballs, present participle hardballing, simple past and past participle hardballed)
hardball meaning in Tamil and Bengali
hardball in Tamil
- கெட்டிப்பந்து, கெட்டியான, வன்மையான, கடினமான, விடாப்பிடியான
hardball in Bengali
- বেসবল খেলায়, কঠোর, নির্মম আচরণ, রাজনীতি, ব্যবসার ক্ষেত্রে, নির্মম আচরণ প্রদর্শনকারী
Forms of hardball
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hardballs |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more hardball |
| superlative | most hardball |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hardballs |
| present participle | hardballing |
| past participle | hardballed |
| past | hardballed |
Origin of hardball
From hard + ball.
Words formed from hardball
Phrases with hardball
Questions about hardball
- What does hardball mean?
- Hardball means in baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
- What is hardball in Tamil?
- Hardball in Tamil is கெட்டிப்பந்து, கெட்டியான, வன்மையான. See Hardball meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hardball?
- Hardball can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- What is the plural of hardball?
- The plural of hardball is hardballs.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hardball (page history and authors); hardball (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardball (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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