hit

1. 1.

   (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)

   “he came all the way around on Williams' hit”

   Broaderfeat

   Narrowerbase hit

   baseball

2. 2.

   the act of contacting one thing with another

   “repeated hitting raised a large bruise”

   “after three misses she finally got a hit”

   Synonymshittingstriking

   Broadertouch

   Narrowercontusioncrashbuntflygrounderheaderscorcherplunk
3. 3.

   a conspicuous success

   “that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career”

   “that new Broadway show is a real smasher”

   “the party went with a bang”

   Synonymssmashsmasherstrikebang

   Broadersuccess

   Narrowerblockbustersleeper
4. 4.

   (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together

   “the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction”

   Synonymscollision

   Broadercontact

   physics

5. 5.

   a dose of a narcotic drug

   Broaderdose
6. 6.

   a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

   “it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit”

   Broadermurder
7. 7.

   a connection made via the internet to another website

   “WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide”

   Broaderjoining

Other forms of hit

plural

hits·

past tense

hitted·

present participle

hitting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hit

What does hit mean?

hit means "cause to move by striking". That is the primary sense; the word has 23 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hit?

hit has 1 syllable: hit. In IPA it is /ˈhɪt/.

What is another word for hit?

Close synonyms include strike, impinge on, run into, collide with, reach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of hit?

The recorded antonyms are miss.

Is hit a common word?

hit is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.