casehardened

adjective

Roget 606: obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert etc. 172; unchangeable etc. 150; inexorable etc. (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.    dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.    willful, self-willed, perverse; resty^†, restive, restiff^†; pervicacious^†, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete [Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained^†.    arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced etc. 481; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible^†; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable^†; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety etc. 608.    ... show more

Roget 823: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable^†, unimpressible^†; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral.    apathetic; leuco-^†, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous^†, torporific^†; sleepy etc. (inactive) 683; languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic etc. 376; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.    indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive etc. 458; neglectful etc. 460; disregarding.    unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante^†, insouciant, sans souci [Fr.]; unambitious etc. 866.    unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked^†, unstruck^†; unblushing etc. (shameless) 885; unanimated; vegetative.    callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable etc. (inexcitable) 826^†; unfelt.    ... show more

caseharden

verb

Roget 613: be wont etc. adj.. fall into a rut, fall into a custom etc. (conform to) 82; tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias [Lat.]; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.    habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train etc. (educate) 537.    get into the way, get into the knack of; learn etc. 539; cling to, adhere to; repeat etc. 104; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.    be habitual etc. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.    ... show more

Roget 823: be insensible etc. adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility etc. n.; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for etc. 866; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari [Lat.]; not care a straw for etc. (unimportance) 643; disregard etc. (neglect) 460; set at naught etc. (make light of) 483; turn a deaf ear to etc. (inattention) 458; vegetate.    render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund^†, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate^†, stun, stupefy; brutify^†; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize^†, put under; assify^†.    inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear.    ... show more

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