The phrase "hardened to" typically implies that someone has become immune or desensitized to something, whether it be a situation, emotion, or experience. The antonyms for "hardened to" could include being vulnerable, sensitive, affected, impressionable, or receptive. Someone who is vulnerable to a situation is likely to be impacted by it emotionally, whereas someone who is "hardened to" that same situation may not feel as strongly affected. Similarly, being impressionable or receptive implies a willingness to learn or be influenced, whereas someone who is "hardened to" may be resistant to change or new ideas.

What are the antonyms for Hardened to?

• adj.

  • immune
  • susceptible
  ,
  • unguarded
  ,
  • unprotected
  ,
  • vulnerable
  .

Famous quotes with Hardened to

• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Patricia Heaton
• I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

  George C. Marshall
• As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

  Linda Vester
• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  G. K. Chesterton
• The Citadel cherishes the belief that the more hardship endured by the young man, the higher the quality of the person who graduates from the system. The Citadel devised a formula years ago to improve the quality of men who walked through her gates. The formula begins with the plebe system. One thing is certain. The plebe system is calculated to be, and generally succeeds in being, a nine month journey through hell. The freshman is beaten, harassed, ridiculed, and humiliated by the upperclassmen who concur and believe in the traditions of the school. Under the pressure of this system, the freshman, in theory, becomes hardened to the savage hardships of the world. Life is tough, the system says, and we are going to make life so tough for you this year that when your marriage dissolves, your child dies unexpectedly, or your platoon is decimated in a surprise attack, you can never say The Citadel didn't prepare you for the worst in life.

  Pat Conroy

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