Antonyms for hardenedhard·ened

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1. case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiledadjective

   used of persons; emotionally hardened

   "faced a case-hardened judge"

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, tender, soft

   Synonyms:
   tempered, toughened, set, inured, pugnacious, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled, hard-bitten

2. tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective

   made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, tender, soft

   Synonyms:
   tough, toughened, set, tempered, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

3. hardenedadjective

   protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

   "hardened missile silos"

   Antonyms:
   tender, untoughened, soft

   Synonyms:
   toughened, set, tempered, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

4. enured, inured, hardenedadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   untoughened, soft, tender

   Synonyms:
   tempered, toughened, set, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

5. hardened, setadjective

   converted to solid form (as concrete)

   Antonyms:
   soft, tender, untoughened

   Synonyms:
   placed, treated, determined, set, fit(p), tempered, situated, toughened, hard-boiled, set(p), case-hardened, inured, primed(p), fixed, dictated, located, laid, enured, rigid

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1. hardenedadjective

   Synonyms:
   indurated, callous, inexorable, ossified, petrified, obdurate, incorrigible, inveterate, case-hardened, seared, depraved, graceless, impenitent, confirmed, sclerosed, sclerotic

How to use hardened in a sentence?

1. Ali Noorani:

   Federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

2. G. K. Chesterton:

   People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

3. Tulsi Gabbard:

   Both sides have completely hardened their positions and are unwilling to come together and work out the differences, and that's the problem here.

4. Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton:

   It is a hardened criminal population that occupies the immigration detention center on Christmas Island, obviously the priority for today has been to restore calm to the center. That has taken place.

5. Sam Hunt:

   I think being out here, and in the music business and being out on the road has sort of hardened my heart. My heart's definitely a lot harder in a lotta ways since I left that small town. It's amazing how that little girl melted that all away overnight a couple of weeks ago, i've been filled with a lot of gratitude these past couple of weeks. I just want to say up here on the Ryman stage how grateful I am to have been a part of country music for the last 10 years.

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