Hardened
/ˈhɑːdn̩d/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of harden form-of, participle, past
"hardened steel"
Adjective
- 1 Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
"hardened police officers"
- 2 Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
"The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears."
- 3 Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
"hardened criminals"
- 4 Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
"a hardened air base"
Adjective
- 1 converted to solid form (as concrete) wordnet
- 2 used of persons; emotionally hardened wordnet
- 3 protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) wordnet
- 4 made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment wordnet
- 5 made tough by habitual exposure wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Years of farm work have hardened his body."