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hardest-hitting

hardest-hitting is the superlative form of hard-hitting.

Meaning of hard-hitting

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

Questions about hardest-hitting

What is hardest-hitting the superlative form of?
Hardest-hitting is the superlative form of hard-hitting.

Words near hardest-hitting in the dictionary

  1. hardest put
  2. hardest working
  3. hardest-core
  4. hardest-earned
  5. hardest-hit
  6. hardest-hitting
  7. hardest-won
  8. hardest-working
  9. Hardesty
  10. Hardestys
  11. hardface

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