All hardboiled synonyms

adjective hardboiled

• unsociable — not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
• frowning — Present participle of frown.
• uppity — affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
• mortified — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• withdrawn — past participle of withdraw.
• response — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
• cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
• apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
• frigid — very cold in temperature: a frigid climate.
• careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
• blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
• cold-blooded — Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion.
• unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
• heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
• draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
• insensitive — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
• scrupulous — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
• uncaring — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
• dead set — absolutely
• hardened — made or become hard or harder.
• iron-fisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
• indurated — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
• oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
• inured — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
• picky — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
• hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
• prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
• hardhearted — unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
• punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
• impassive — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
• puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
• impenitent — not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate.
• square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
• insensate — not endowed with sensation; inanimate: insensate stone.
• straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
• insensible — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
• strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
• insentient — not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.
• stuffy — close; poorly ventilated: a stuffy room.
• soulless — without a soul.
• nonpermissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
• spiritless — without spirit.
• uptight — tense, nervous, or jittery.
• stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
• desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
• stony — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
• fierce — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• torpid — inactive or sluggish.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.