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hardened
Synonyms and Antonyms of hardened
- hardened from years of deprivation and grief, the man regarded the house fire as just another misfortune in a life filled with them
flinty, leathery, resilient, stalwart
durable, enduring, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, lasting, permanent, stable, staunch (also stanch), staying, tenacious, unyielding
flourishing, prospering, thriving
fit, fortified, hale, healthy, husky, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sound, strapping, virile
- hardened cynics regarded those TV shows as being anything but reality-based
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)
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
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous
contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
Synonyms and Antonyms of hardened
- the glue begins to harden as soon as it is exposed to air
caked, callused, encrusted (also incrusted)
clotted, coagulated, gelated, gelatinized, gelled, jelled, jellied, stiffened, thickened
calcified, crystallized (also crystalized), ossified, petrified, rigidified
- pioneer women who had been hardened by years of living on the plains
- arm muscles that were hardened by all the years of casting and hauling his fishing nets
- the government hardened restrictions on travel to and from the war-torn nation
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