hardened meaning and definition

HARDENED adjective

Definition of hardened (adjective)

1. used of persons; emotionally hardened
   • "faced a case-hardened judge"
   • synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled
2. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
   • "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
   • synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated
   • antonym: unhardened
3. protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
   • "hardened missile silos"
   • antonym: soft
4. 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
   • synonyms: enured, inured
5. converted to solid form (as concrete)
   • synonyms: set