English adjective: hardened | |||
1. | hardened used of persons; emotionally hardened | ||
Samples | Faced a case-hardened judge. | ||
Synonyms | case-hardened, hard-boiled | ||
Similar | hard | ||
Antonyms | soft | ||
2. | hardened made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | ||
Samples | A sword of tempered steel. Tempered glass. | ||
Synonyms | tempered, toughened, treated | ||
Similar | curable, sunbaked | ||
Antonyms | unhardened, untempered | ||
3. | hardened protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | ||
Samples | Hardened missile silos. | ||
Antonyms | soft | ||
4. | hardened made tough by habitual exposure | ||
Samples | Hardened fishermen. A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured. Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men. | ||
Synonyms | enured, inured | ||
Similar | tough, toughened | ||
Antonyms | untoughened, tender | ||
5. | hardened converted to solid form (as concrete) | ||
Synonyms | set | ||
Similar | hard | ||
Antonyms | soft | ||