The distinction between hardcore soccer fans and criminals is becoming more and more undistinguishable.
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Hardcore
//hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "hardcore" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
derived from
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 14 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- হার্ডকোর পর্নোগ্রাফি adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заклет adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
- неизменим adj (resistant to change)
- неприличен adj (obscene or explicit)
- нецензурен adj (obscene or explicit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 硬核 adj (particularly intense)
- 硬核 noun (hardcore punk or techno music)
Finnish
3 entries- kova adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
- peräänantamaton adj (resistant to change)
- sitkeä adj (resistant to change)
Hungarian
2 entries- kemény pornó adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
- megszállott adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
Marathi
1 entries- हार्डकोर noun (hardcore punk or techno music)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- hardbarket adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
- hardcore adj (obscene or explicit)
- innbitt adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
- svoren adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
Persian
1 entries- هاردکور adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
Polish
2 entries- hardcore'owy adj (particularly intense)
- hardcore noun (hardcore punk or techno music)
Portuguese
3 entries- hardcore adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
- punk adj (particularly intense)
- hardcore noun (hardcore punk or techno music)
Russian
2 entries- неприличный adj (obscene or explicit)
- хардко́р noun (hardcore punk or techno music)
Slovene
3 entries- jasen adj (obscene or explicit)
- nedvoumen adj (obscene or explicit)
- nespodoben adj (obscene or explicit)
Spanish
4 entries- acérrimo adj (resistant to change)
- duro adj (resistant to change)
- duro adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
- duro adj (faster or more intense than the regular style)
Swedish
4 entries- Hårdporr adj (of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration)
- hård adj (faster or more intense than the regular style)
- inbiten adj (having an extreme dedication to a certain activity)
- intensiv adj (particularly intense)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
People were stunned when the who's who of hardcore basket weaving suddenly appeared to challenge the team to a sushi battle!
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Tom prefers softcore porn, while Mary prefers hardcore.
Source: tatoeba (6168084)
Sami lapsed back into hardcore addiction.
Source: tatoeba (6325929)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.