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adj. converted to solid form (as concrete)

adj. used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"

adj. 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

treated, tempered, toughened

adj. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

unmerciful, merciless

adj. having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating"

hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling

adj. devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"

pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying

adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"

insensitive

adj. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"

unresponsive

adj. "his dignity made him see aloof and unsympathetic"

unresponsive

adj. "insensitive to the needs of the customers"; "a government unresponsive to their demands"

cold, insensate, cold-blooded, inhuman

adj. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"

adamantine

adj. having the hardness of a diamond

erect, tumid

adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

firm, solid

adj. not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"

granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony

adj. hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

lignified, woody

adj. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

marmoreal, marmorean

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of marble

ossified

adj. changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"

petrified

adj. converted into stone

petrous, stonelike

adj. (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness

slaty, slatey

adj. of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"

steely

adj. resembling steel in hardness

unpadded

adj. (hard)

harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

scheming, shrewd, calculating, calculative, conniving

adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

intent, concentrated

adj. "took a hard look"

glaring, harsh

adj. disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"

steely

adj. resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"

cured

adj. (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening

untempered, unhardened

adj. not brought to a proper consistency or hardness; "untempered mortar"; "untempered steel"

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