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hard boiled
adjective as in insensitive
adjective as in matter-of-fact
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adjective as in obdurate
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- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hanging tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
adjective as in practical
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adjective as in pragmatic
Strong match
adjective as in realistic
adjective as in sober
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adjective as in stern
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adjective as in stony
adjective as in strict
adjective as in tough
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adjective as in unaffected
adjective as in unemotional
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- along for the ride
- apathetic
- blah
- callous
- chill
- cold
- coldhearted
- cool
- flat
- frigid
- glacial
- going with the flow
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- heartless
- indifferent
- insensitive
- listless
- marble
- obdurate
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- quiet
- reserved
- rolling with the punches
- thick-skinned
- uncompassionate
- undemonstrative
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unimpressionable
- unresponsive
- unsympathetic
adjective as in hardheaded
adjective as in callous
adjective as in hard-nosed
adjective as in compassionless
adjective as in insusceptible
adjective as in naturalistic
adjective as in pragmatical
adjective as in stonyhearted
adjective as in true-life
adjective as in unromantic
adjective as in cold-blooded
adjective as in earthy
adjective as in aloof
adjective as in hard
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- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in hard-boiled
adjective as in hardened
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adjective as in hardhearted
adjective as in hard-line
adjective as in hard-nosed/hardheaded
adjective as in harsh
adjective as in heartless
adjective as in tough
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Example Sentences
They are poached instead of hard-boiled, boasting anti-heroes with nihilistic worldviews who are nevertheless vulnerable.
On a lighter note, your character in the film has an interesting eating habit: he eats two hard-boiled eggs a day.
Because it lacks the stylish voice of a hard-boiled detective noir, it sometimes feels coldly industrious.
Since this fall, though, as the governing got tough, the president has been avoiding fiction for some hard-boiled history.
I had her on my Food Network show, Cooking Live, twice (the first time to make those famous non-boiled hard-boiled eggs).
When growing flower plants from seeds, start them in halves of shells from hard-boiled eggs.
Add four hard-boiled yolks of eggs, and pour gravy all over, cover with puff paste, and bake for one hour and a quarter.
I'll bet you anything that Uncle Sim himself couldn't go to Athens tomorrow and order a cup of coffee and a hard-boiled egg!
He climbed half way, and then ate lunch, which consisted of nine hard boiled eggs.
Creamed hard-boiled eggs on toast; coffee; fried hominy and syrup.
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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hard-boiled, such as: hard-nosed, callous, firm, hard as nails, hard-line, and hard-shelled.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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