hard-core

1 of 2

adjective

ˈhärd-ˈkȯr How to pronounce hard-core (audio)

: of, relating to, or being part of a hard core

hard-core poverty

the hard-core unemployed

: confirmed, die-hard

hard-core rock fans

a hard-core liberal

of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts compare soft-core

: characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something : fundamental

a room gussied up in hard-core French provincial style

John Canaday

hard core

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noun

: a central or fundamental and usually enduring group or part: such as

: a relatively small enduring core of society marked by apparent resistance to change or inability to escape a persistent wretched condition (such as poverty or chronic unemployment)

: a militant or fiercely loyal faction

usually hardcore

ˈhärd-ˌkȯr How to pronounce hard core (audio)

, chiefly British : hard material in pieces (such as broken bricks or stone) used as a bottom (as in making roads and in foundations)

Synonyms

Adjective

bred-in-the-bone
confirmed
deep
deep-rooted
deep-seated
entrenched
intrenched
inveterate
rooted
settled

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Example Sentences

Noun He knows that he can count on the support of a hard core of party loyalists.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Truss campaigned for her party’s leadership on a platform pandering to the Tory’s hard core.

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 Support for those beliefs goes beyond the hard core of people who openly advocate violence.

David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Tuesday is for keynotes and consumer hardware, and the next three day are for hard core geeks.

Charlie Fink, Forbes, 26 May 2022 Strong believers in political violence, that 5%, are the hardest of the hard core.

David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Equity believers have to be a hard core buy the dippers to not acknowledge this is one frightening chart with a trajectory aiming at 10,000 and probably lower.

Clem Chambers, Forbes, 19 May 2022 The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations.

Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022 Yet another wave of completely pointless death seems to be motivating a lot of people to finally get vaccinated — but thus far the procrastinators, not the ideological, hard core antivaxxers.

Ryan Cooper, The Week, 27 Aug. 2021 And a hard core of vaccine resistance, often tied to far-right populism, helped set the stage for a virulent fourth wave of infections now raging across Europe, triggering stringent lockdowns whose like hadn’t been seen for months.

Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021 See More

单词	hard-core
释义	hard-core 1 of 2 adjective ˈhärd-ˈkȯr 1 a : of, relating to, or being part of a hard core hard-core poverty the hard-core unemployed b : confirmed, die-hard hard-core rock fans a hard-core liberal 2 of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts compare soft-core 3 : characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something : fundamental a room gussied up in hard-core French provincial style John Canaday hard core 2 of 2 noun 1 : a central or fundamental and usually enduring group or part: such as a : a relatively small enduring core of society marked by apparent resistance to change or inability to escape a persistent wretched condition (such as poverty or chronic unemployment) b : a militant or fiercely loyal faction 2 usually hardcore ˈhärd-ˌkȯr , chiefly British : hard material in pieces (such as broken bricks or stone) used as a bottom (as in making roads and in foundations) Synonyms Adjective bred-in-the-bone confirmed deep deep-rooted deep-seated entrenched intrenched inveterate rooted settled See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun He knows that he can count on the support of a hard core of party loyalists. Recent Examples on the Web Noun Truss campaigned for her party’s leadership on a platform pandering to the Tory’s hard core. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 Support for those beliefs goes beyond the hard core of people who openly advocate violence. David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Tuesday is for keynotes and consumer hardware, and the next three day are for hard core geeks. Charlie Fink, Forbes, 26 May 2022 Strong believers in political violence, that 5%, are the hardest of the hard core. David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Equity believers have to be a hard core buy the dippers to not acknowledge this is one frightening chart with a trajectory aiming at 10,000 and probably lower. Clem Chambers, Forbes, 19 May 2022 The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations. Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022 Yet another wave of completely pointless death seems to be motivating a lot of people to finally get vaccinated — but thus far the procrastinators, not the ideological, hard core antivaxxers. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 27 Aug. 2021 And a hard core of vaccine resistance, often tied to far-right populism, helped set the stage for a virulent fourth wave of infections now raging across Europe, triggering stringent lockdowns whose like hadn’t been seen for months. Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use Adjective 1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Noun 1841, in the meaning defined at sense 2 hard-core adjective as in deep firmly established over time the hard-core habits that generate our mountains of trash everyday will be extremely difficult to change Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance deep inveterate lifelong entrenched rooted persistent deep-seated deep-rooted chronic confirmed inherent settled typical bred-in-the-bone intrenched intrinsic natural persisting habitual regular embedded usual immutable inbred enduring firm set hard ingrained frozen accustomed fixed integral inculcated customary unalterable innate unchangeable instilled hard-and-fast irradicable abiding inborn imbedded implanted engrained Antonyms & Near Antonyms transient temporary ephemeral brief momentary provisional fleeting interim short-term short-lived impermanent See More
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hard-core

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