Dictionary Definition
hardened adj
1 used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a
case-hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened,
hard-boiled]
2 made hard or flexible or resilient especially
by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: tempered,
treated, toughened] [ant: untempered]
3 made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened
fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert
Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable
men"- V.S.Pritchett [syn: enured, inured]
4 converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn:
set]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
hardened- past of harden
Adjective
- Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
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- The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
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Translations
unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience;
callous
- German: abgehärtet, verhärtet
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened,
cold, cold of heart,
coldblooded,
coldhearted,
conditioned,
conscienceless,
crusted, crusty, crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
hardhearted,
heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious, incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured, lapidified, lost to shame,
naturalized,
obdurate, orientated, oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against,
reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set, shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against,
steely, stiffened, stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned,
toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate,
uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted