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hard-hitting en · ADJ

Meanings

  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:
    • 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 Cosmopolitan:
    • 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:

Forms

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more hard-hitting Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most hard-hitting Degree=Sup lexicographic
harder-hitting Degree=Cmp lexicographic
hardest-hitting Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (4)

pl bezkompromisowy (hard-hitting) · nb hardtslående (hard-hitting) · pl mocny (hard-hitting) · pl ostry (hard-hitting)