Synonyms of inured

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adjective

as in hardy

able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure

the weather-beaten, inured faces of farmers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hardy
• sturdy
• strong
• hardened
• rugged
• tough
• vigorous
• stout
• toughened
• hard-bitten
• durable
• healthy
• cast-iron
• hard
• staunch
• permanent
• robust
• enduring
• thriving
• resilient
• flinty
• stalwart
• immortal
• staying
• stable
• leathery
• able-bodied
• tempered
• everlasting
• flourishing
• unyielding
• tenacious
• lasting
• seasoned
• fortified
• muscular
• prospering
• imperishable
• virile
• hale
• brawny
• sound
• fit
• annealed
• lusty
• husky
• red-blooded
• strapping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• weak
• soft
• worn
• delicate
• enfeebled
• wasted
• tender
• exhausted
• weakened
• emasculated
• diseased
• debilitated
• incapacitated
• susceptible
• crippled
• infirm
• unsound
• enervated
• vulnerable
• fragile
• sensitive
• nonhardy
• sapped
• puny
• frail
• temporary
• transient
• mortal
• worn-out
• yielding
• run-down
• resistless
• perishable
• unresistant

inured

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verb

past tense of inure

as in strengthened

to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure

the hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strengthened
• hardened
• fortified
• toughened
• steeled
• adjusted
• seasoned
• indurated
• adapted
• acclimated
• braced
• accustomed
• bolstered
• tempered
• reinforced
• acclimatized
• annealed
• invigorated
• immunized
• enforced
• habituated
• conditioned
• vitalized
• trained
• buttressed
• propped (up)
• supported
• naturalized
• forearmed
• boosted
• broke in
• limbered (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• softened
• exhausted
• weakened
• sapped
• crippled
• incapacitated
• enfeebled
• sensitized
• emasculated
• enervated
• debilitated
• hamstrung

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inured

Adjective

Since then, most people have become fairly inured to such a risk. — Jen Easterly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026

Humans are cursed to become inured to anything that persists long enough, and even the staggering beauty of a total solar eclipse may begin to fade after, say, an hour. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

News of Nataliia’s death spread quickly across Ukraine, a nation that is, by now, mostly inured to the nightly tick of deaths. — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026

Kenneth Ahn, president of Broad Arrow, said the wealthy today seem to have become inured to the chaotic headlines and market gyrations. — Robert Frank, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026

Americans—especially journalists—should resist becoming inured to fascist rhetoric. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026

The danger in conflating different stories into a data breach that never was is that users become inured to the real advice. — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

Erudite cynics like Karl Rove have written that gerrymandering has been around as long as there have been politicians and districts and that public officials invariably become inured to their own hypocrisy. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025

Verb

That could be because New Yorkers are inured to the perpetually temporary structures anyway or because the new designs, despite the day-care-center colors, do a good job of being inconspicuous. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 June 2026

Police initially said there were 10 people inured in the shooting and later revised the number. — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026

After finishing third in the short program, Liu rose to the top of the medal podium while skating freely, ebulliently, inured to any pressure, performing with technical precision and bright artistry. — Bora Erden, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026

The pain is felt on both sides, although the Kremlin appears to be inured to it. — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025