adj
Meaning 1
Made physically hard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- hardened steel
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hardened
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːdn̩d/
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General-American: /ˈhɑɹd(ə)nd/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 R D AH0 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- hardened police officers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: habituated, toughened, hard-bitten
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: harsh, severe, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- hardened criminals
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, government, mathematics, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, sciences, war
Examples
- a hardened air base
- a hardened server
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
simple past and past participle of harden
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hardened missile silos
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: soft
adjective
Meaning 8
made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a sword of tempered steel
- tempered glass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tempered, treated, toughened
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
converted to solid form (as concrete)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: set
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
used of persons; emotionally hardened
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- faced a case-hardened judge
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 11
made tough by habitual exposure- Robert Lynd- V.S.Pritchett
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hardened fishermen
- a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
- our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enured, inured
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: endurecido — made physically hard
- Catalan: endurit — inured, toughened
- Finnish: karaistunut — inured, toughened
- Finnish: luja — inured, toughened
- French: endurci — inured, toughened
- German: gehärtet — inured, toughened
- Italian: indurito — inured, toughened
- Polish: stwardniały — inured, toughened
- Polish: utwardzony — inured, toughened
- Portuguese: endurecido — inured, toughened
- Bulgarian: закоравял (zakoravjal) — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Finnish: paatunut — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Finnish: tunteeton (unfeeling) — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Finnish: säälimätön — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- German: abgehärtet — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- German: verhärtet — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (daufs) — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Polish: stwardniały — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Polish: bezwzględny — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Russian: огрубе́вший (ogrubévšij) — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Spanish: endurecido — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Spanish: aguerrido — unfeeling; pitiless; callous
- Finnish: vakiintunut — firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate
- Finnish: luutunut — firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate
- Polish: zakorzeniony — firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate
- Finnish: vahvistettu — having extra defences against attack
- Polish: umocniony — having extra defences against attack
Real reading context