Synonyms for hardened
- adjective
Most common
hard-boiled callous unfeeling obdurate hard-bitten petrified inured ossified
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Obdurate — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
hard, obdurate, callous, tough, unfeeling, hard-boiled, reprobate, hard-hearted, seared, incorrigible, abandoned, inveterate, cold, stiff, unrepentant, insensible, heartless, thick-skinned, stony-hearted, stony, harsh, severe
Other
inured, hard-bitten, experienced, ossified, petrified, sclerotic, case-hardened, set
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
- adj. 2
Made physically hard.
Related words
- Phrases
- case-hardened
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Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, hardened in vice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- callous There is no need to be callous about deforestation.
- unfeeling He accused me of being an unfeeling father and husband.
- petrified Kalman was so petrified that he couldn't even scream.
By length
- 3 letters
- set1
- 4 letters
- hard1, cold1
- 5 letters
- tough1, harsh1, stiff1, stony2
- 6 letters
- severe2, seared1, inured2
- 7 letters
- treated2, callous2
- 8 letters
- tempered2, ossified3, obdurate3
- 9 letters
- abandoned3, heartless2, petrified3, unfeeling3, reprobate3, sclerotic
- 10 letters
- inveterate4, insensible4
- 11 letters
- experienced4, unrepentant4
- 12 letters
- incorrigible5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (stony2 = 2 syllables).