All hardboiled synonyms

adjective hardboiled

• unaffected — not affected, acted upon, or influenced; unchanged; unaltered: The laboratory clock remained accurate, unaffected by the explosion.
• terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
• uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
• refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
• unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
• arbitrary — If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this.
• non-susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
• confirmed — You use confirmed to describe someone who has a particular habit or belief that they are very unlikely to change.
• barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
• drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
• brutal — A brutal act or person is cruel and violent.
• ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
• inhuman — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
• immutable — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
• merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
• pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• taut — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
• dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
• unalterable — not capable of being altered, changed, or modified.
• imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
• uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
• pitiless — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
• unmanageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
• relentless — that does not relent; unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh; unrelenting: a relentless enemy.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• savage — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
• violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
• steely — consisting or made of steel.
• unchanged — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
• stony-hearted — hardhearted.
• impervious — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
• unemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
• unaltered — not altered, changed, or modified: We approved the unaltered designs.
• unmoved — to pass from one place or position to another.
• unimpressed — finding sth unremarkable
• unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
• untouched — not touched or handled, as material.
• down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
• easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
• folksy — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
• laid-back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
• funky — Jazz. having an earthy, blues-based quality or character.
• proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
• homey — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
• uninfluenced — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• simple — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
• unstirred — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
• bawdy — A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex.
• reticent — disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.