hardball

Questions about hardball

What does hardball mean?

hardball means "a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hardball?

hardball has 2 syllables: hard-ball. The stress falls on "hard". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹdˌbɔl/.

What is the opposite of hardball?

The recorded antonyms are softball.

Is hardball a common word?

hardball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hardball?

24 words rhyme with hardball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.