case-hardened

1. 1.

   used of persons; emotionally hardened

   “faced a case-hardened judge”

   Synonymshardenedhard-boiled

   Similarhard

Questions about case-hardened

What does case-hardened mean?

case-hardened means "used of persons; emotionally hardened".

How many syllables are in case-hardened?

case-hardened has 4 syllables: case--har-de-ned. The stress falls on "har".

What is another word for case-hardened?

Close synonyms include hardened, hard-boiled. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is case-hardened a common word?

case-hardened is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.