All hard-shell synonyms
hard-shell
H h adj hard-shell
- accepted — Accepted ideas are agreed by most people to be correct or reasonable.
- accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
- chronic — A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time. Compare acute.
- deep-rooted — Deep-rooted means the same as deep-seated.
- deep-seated — A deep-seated problem, feeling, or belief is difficult to change because its causes have been there for a long time.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- fixed — fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- ingrained — ingrained; firmly fixed.
- inveterate — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- irradicable — ineradicable.
- proved — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- settled — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- staid — of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
- inured — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- val — a male given name, form of Valentine.