hard-bitten

Speech parts

1. hard-bitten - Adjective

2. hard-bitten - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

tough and callous by virtue of experience

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

hard bitten

Synonyms

hard-boiled pugnacious unsentimental calloused hard-handed

Antonyms

starry-eyed

Examples

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk. Sally Kellerman

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. Ron Fournier

Humanity shines through in his accounts of hard-bitten students gaining a deeper understanding from the great books of the Western canon--intellectual heavyweights like Petrarch, Augustine and Dante--beyond what the average college freshmen could achieve. Source: Internet

It’s the story of, what it was like to be on a British man-of-war of the times, fighting for old King George, combined with a romance between a hard-bitten English sea captain and a Spanish beauty. Source: Internet

In this case, the trajectory is from hard-bitten youth to redemption in writing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

hard-backed insect hard-baked hard-bill hard-block hard-boil hard-boiled