HARDENED as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • converted to solid form (as concrete)
   Synonym(s)
   • set (what does set mean?)
   Similar To
   • hard (what does hard mean?)
2. Meaning
   • used of persons
   • emotionally hardened
   Synonym(s)
   • case-hardened (what does case-hardened mean?)
   • hard-boiled (what does hard-boiled mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • faced a case-hardened judge
   Similar To
   • hard (what does hard mean?)
3. Meaning
   • made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
   Synonym(s)
   • tempered (what does tempered mean?)
   • toughened (what does toughened mean?)
   • treated (what does treated mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a sword of tempered steel
   • tempered glass
   Antonym(s)
   • untempered (what does untempered mean?)
   • unhardened (what does unhardened mean?)
   Similar To
   • annealed (what does annealed mean?)
   • baked (what does baked mean?)
   • burned (what does burned mean?)
   • burnt (what does burnt mean?)
   • curable (what does curable mean?)
   • sunbaked (what does sunbaked mean?)
4. Meaning
   • made tough by habitual exposure
   Synonym(s)
   • enured (what does enured mean?)
   • inured (what does inured mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • hardened fishermen
   • a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured- Robert Lynd
   • our successors…may be graver, more inured and equable men- V.S.Pritchett
   Similar To
   • tough (what does tough mean?)
   • toughened (what does toughened mean?)