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- hardened from years of deprivation and grief, the man regarded the house fire as just another misfortune in a life filled with them
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- durable,
- enduring,
- everlasting,
- immortal,
- imperishable,
- lasting,
- permanent,
- stable,
- staunch
- (also stanch),
- staying,
- tenacious,
- unyielding
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- hardened cynics regarded those TV shows as being anything but reality-based
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- adamant,
- adamantine,
- bullheaded,
- dogged,
- hard,
- hard-nosed,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inconvincible,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ossified,
- pat,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- self-opinionated,
- self-willed,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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- determined,
- hell-bent,
- inexorable,
- persistent,
- relentless,
- resolved,
- set,
- single-minded,
- steadfast,
- stouthearted,
- tenacious,
- unflinching
- firm,
- hard-line,
- hard-shell
- (or hard-shelled),
- iron,
- severe,
- stern,
- strict
- bloody-minded
- [chiefly British],
- cantankerous
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hardened
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of hardened (Entry 2 of 2)
- the glue begins to harden as soon as it is exposed to air
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- calcified,
- crystallized
- (also crystalized),
- ossified,
- petrified,
- rigidified
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- pioneer women who had been hardened by years of living on the plains
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- arm muscles that were hardened by all the years of casting and hauling his fishing nets
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- the government hardened restrictions on travel to and from the war-torn nation
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“Hardened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardened. Accessed 23 Oct. 2021.
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