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 and divides as case--har-de-ned under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.

Case-hardened — meaning, 2 synonyms and examples

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
used of persons; emotionally hardened
“faced a case-hardened judge”
Synonymshardened hard-boiled
Similarhard

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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 and divides as case--har-de-ned under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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