Antonyms for hardened

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hahr-dnd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr dnd

Definition of hardened

Origin : c.1200 (replacing Old English heardian) "to make (something) hard," from hard + -en (1). Meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. Related: Hardened (figurative sense of "unfeeling" is from late 14c.); hardening.

adj unfeeling

Example sentences :

Physically he had undoubtedly improved; his legs had hardened and smoothed down.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

The law represented the best that could be done with hardened hearts.
Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell

But Sapphira was "hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox

I am hardened now, I have sunk too low to care long even for that.'
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

He was hardened, steeped in guilt, and callous as to the sufferings of others.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

I want to see what he was when he was bright and young before the world had hardened him.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Justice, however, remained to be done on the hardened and impenitent.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

To bear hunger and cold they are hardened by their climate and soil.
Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus

She looked at him with an almost sharp intensity which hardened her whole face.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

She had not yet wept; her face was livid, contracted, hardened by cold rage.
Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for hardened

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