GENTLED Antonyms

• 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

• physically toughened

• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

• not set afire

• treat brutally

• make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

• become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

• cause to be bitter or resentful

• To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.

• To render peevish, morose, or austere.

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form