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Definition of hardened : 1. Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
2. of Harden

Synonyms:

stout, stiff, self-opinionated, self-willed, fixed, situated, habitual, inexperienced, located, inaccessible, dictated, pigheaded, firm, primed, strong, headstrong, bad, impious, undemonstrative, cold, shameless, rugged, stiff-necked, attitude, obdurate, pat, abandoned, burned, contemptuous, placed, impassive, inflexible, laid, irredeemable, habituated, impenetrable, mulish, opinionated, degenerate, uncompromising, pertinacious, profane, unrelenting, determined, unyielding, unbending, resistant, willful, cast-iron, stonyhearted, neutral, stubborn, unaccustomed, controlled, adamantine, pugnacious, trained, reprobate, ossified, sunbaked, cold-hearted, incorrigible, sturdy, burnt, intransigent, accustomed, inconvincible, perverse, irreligious, chronic, blasphemous, hardheaded, inured, adamant, immovable, unresponsive, restrained, hard-nosed, disdainful, bullheaded, blank, rigid, annealed, benumbed, indurate, inveterate, implacable, fit, depraved, treated, vigorous, cruel, compassionless, hard-bitten, baked, irreverent, case-hardened, uncaring, insensible, enured, irreclaimable, dogged, untouched, lost, sacrilegious

firmed, stiffened

jelled, congealed, set, solidified, thickened, coagulated

remorseless, unremorseful, unrepentant, uncontrite, impenitent

callous, heartless, hardhearted, insensitive, hard, stony, dispassionate, nonchalant, indifferent, passionless, uncompassionate, detached, unfeeling, ruthless, aloof, objective, cold-blooded, unsympathetic, passive, cool, blunt, anesthetized, tough, unconcerned, numb, unemotional, emotionless, apathetic, hard-boiled

reinforced, strengthened, braced, empowered, invigorated, buttressed, propped, fortified, energized, tempered, enlivened, toughened, vivified, supported

Usage examples:

• He smiled kindly at her, but his face hardened again as he turned once more to Hubert. - "By What Authority?", Robert Hugh Benson.
• He had been hardened by many a fight in the law courts, and he knew how little such words might mean. - "The Day of Judgment", Joseph Hocking.
• They were naturally coarse, hardened adventurers, and it was such that Hawthorne chiefly came in contact with in his official business. - "The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne", Frank Preston Stearns.