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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), adjective
1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics. [PJC]
3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops. [PJC]
4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively. [PJC]
Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See {Obdurate}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hardened} (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening} (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. ''Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.
I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hardened
adjective
1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hard-boiled}]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: {tempered}, {treated}, {toughened}] [ant: {untempered}]
3: 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 [syn: {enured}, {inured}]
4: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: {set}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardened": Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, annealed, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, conditioned, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized, experienced, familiarized, flinthearted, flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impenitent, impervious, incrusted, indurate, indurated, insensitive, insolent, inured, lapidified, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated, oriented, ossified, pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, run-in, sclerotic, seared, seasoned, set, shameless, solidified, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, tempered, thick-skinned, toughened, trained, unabject, unblushing, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, untouched, used to, vitrified, wont, wonted
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