SOFTENED Antonyms

• made coarse or crude by lack of skill

• congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling

• having become fixed and definite in form

• having both internal structure and external form of a crystal

• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

• protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

• used of persons; emotionally hardened

• made tough by habitual exposure

• converted to solid form (as concrete)

• used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure

• changed into a solid mass

• given added strength or support

• physically toughened

• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit

• become hard or harder

• make hard or harder

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• make healthy

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• make sharp or sharper

• make crisp or more crisp and precise

• become sharp or sharper

• put (an image) into focus

• make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

• raise the pitch of (musical notes)

• give a point to

• make (one's senses) more acute