Hardened Synonyms and Antonyms

härd'nd
Confirmed, especially in error or vice
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. callous
  2. hard
  3. obdurate
  4. unfeeling
  5. hard-boiled
  6. impenitent
  7. depraved
  8. incorrigible
  9. inveterate
  10. case-hardened
  11. hardhearted
  12. indurate
  13. indurated
  14. chronic
  15. seared
  16. unrepenting
  17. impenetrable
  18. unyielding
  19. bad
  20. shameless
  21. irreclaimable
  22. lost
  23. cold-blooded
  24. irreligious
  25. profane
  26. abandoned
  27. irredeemable
  28. cold-hearted
  29. degenerate
  30. tough
  31. drawn
  32. reprobate
  33. insensible
  34. compassionless
  35. calloused
  36. deadened
  37. benumbed
  38. habituated
  39. confirmed
  40. unashamed
  41. uncaring
  42. inaccessible
  43. untouched
  44. graceless
  45. uncontrite
  46. set
  47. sacrilegious
  48. unsubmissive
  49. implacable
  50. disdainful
  51. habitual
  52. cold
  53. blasphemous
  54. heartless
  55. irreverent
  56. impious
  57. unrelenting
  58. contemptuous
  59. inexorable
  60. inured
  61. unbending
  62. hard-as-nails
  63. stonyhearted
  64. ossified
  65. petrified
  66. sclerosed
  67. sclerotic
  68. steeled
  69. taut
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. thickened
  2. strengthened
  3. tempered
  4. coagulated
  5. set
  6. caked
  7. stiffened
  8. fortified
  9. ossified
  10. petrified
  11. contracted
  12. seasoned
  13. closed
  14. settled
  15. steeled
  16. curdled
  17. seared
  18. inured
  19. indurated
  20. clotted
  21. endured
  22. embittered
  23. frozen
  24. congealed
  25. condensed
  26. concreted
  27. cemented
  28. fixed
  29. brutalized
  30. braced
  31. jelled
  32. baked
  33. accustomed
  34. confirmed
  35. acclimated
Antonyms:
  1. softened
  2. indulged
  3. thawed
  4. spoilt
  5. liquefied
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. indurated
  2. inured

Words Related to Hardened

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Hardened Sentence Examples

  • If the bar inserted into the coil is of hardened steel instead of iron, the magnetism will be less intense, but a larger proportion of it will be retained after the current has been cut off.

  • They must be well hardened off before being set out in the open.

  • The surface of the glass was hardened, but the inner layers remained in unstable equilibrium.

  • Oil hardened and annealed, magnified 50 diameters.

  • When the load on a hardened wire is gradually increased, the maximum value of I is found to correspond with a greater stress than when the load is gradually diminished, this being an effect of hysteresis.

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