hardened synonyms

hardened

modif.

  1. Made hard

    compacted, stiffened, stiff; see firm 2.

  2. Inured to labor or hardship

    disciplined, trained, accustomed, habituated, inured, resistant, steeled, toughened, seasoned.

    Antonyms unaccustomed, inexperienced, raw.

  3. Confirmed, especially in error or vice

    callous, inveterate, obdurate, impenitent, unrepenting, impenetrable, unyielding, bad, shameless, irreclaimable, lost, incorrigible, irreligious, profane, abandoned, irredeemable, unfeeling, depraved, degenerate, tough, reprobate, insensible, chronic, hard, deadened, benumbed, habituated, unashamed, uncaring, hardhearted, inaccessible, untouched, uncontrite, sacrilegious, unsubmissive, implacable, disdainful, habitual, seared, cold, blasphemous, irreverent, impious, unrelenting, contemptuous, indurated, indurate, unbending, hard as nails*, hard-boiled*; see also callous, chronic, cruel 2. See syn. study at chronic.

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