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. Producer Bryan Cogman:

   This is 'Game of Thrones,' this is a hardened woman making a choice and she sees this as the way to get back her homeland. Sansa has a wedding night in the sense she never thought she would with one of the monsters of the show. It's pretty intense and awful and the character will have to deal with it.

2. Sarah Palin:

   My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have sacrificially given to this country and that starts at the top.

3. David Lublin:

   Many House seats are safe simply because party lines have hardened.

4. Matt Gilligan:

   As a result, this vitally important program is now well positioned for predictable performance and strong execution going forward, raytheon firmly believes that GPS OCX is the best path forward to meet the country's needs for a completely capable and cyber hardened ground control system and the nation's full modernization requirements without compromise.

5. The Navy:

   The first-in-class aircraft carrier was designed using advanced computer modeling methods, testing, and analysis to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions, and these shock trials provide data used in validating the shock hardness of the ship.

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