Meaning

5 senses
  1. Made physically hard.

    hardened steel

    made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

  2. Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.

    hardened police officers

    gehärtet

  3. Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.

    The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.

    abgehärtet, verhärtet

    огрубе́вшийogrubévšij

  4. Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.

    hardened criminals

  5. Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.

    a hardened air base

    a hardened server

    protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
unfeeling; pitiless; callous:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
inured, toughened:
unfeeling; pitiless; callous:

Forms

more hardened, most hardened
Comparativemore hardened Lesson
Superlativemost hardened Lesson

regular

Synonyms

44 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

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