'Hardened' definitions:
Definition of 'hardened'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, hard- boiled]
adjective
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant: unhardened, untempered]
adjective
Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos" [ant: soft]
adjective
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, hardened]
adjective
Converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: hardened, set]
Definition of 'Hardened'
From: GCIDE
- Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
- 1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
- 2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics. [PJC]
- 3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops. [PJC]
- 4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively. [PJC]
- Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hardened'
From: GCIDE
- Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
- 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8. [1913 Webster]
- I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hardened'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Philistine,
- 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