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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hard′ core′, - Sociologythe permanent, dedicated, and completely faithful nucleus of a group or movement, as of a political party.
- Sociologyan unyielding or intransigent element in a social or organizational structure, as that part of a group consisting of longtime adherents or those resistant to change.
- Sociologythose whose condition seems to be without hope of remedy or change.
hard-core (härd′kôr′, -kōr′),USA pronunciation adj. - Sociologyunswervingly committed;
uncompromising;
dedicated:a hard-core segregationist. - pruriently explicit;
graphically depicted:hard-core pornography. - Sociologybeing so without apparent change or remedy;
chronic:hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment.Cf. soft-core.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: hard core n - the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resisting change
- material, such as broken bricks, stones, etc, used to form a foundation for a road, paving, building, etc
adj hard-core - (of pornography) describing or depicting sexual acts in explicit detail
- extremely committed or fanatical: a hard-core Communist
ˈhard-ˈcore, adj. - Sociologycommitted;
uncompromising:a hard-core conservative. - very realistic;
explicit:hard-core pornography.
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