Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb inure

1 sense of inure

Sense 1
inure, harden, indurate -- (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold")
       => habituate, accustom -- (make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music")

Antonyms of adj inured

1 sense of inured

Sense 1
enured, inured, hardened -- (made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett)

INDIRECT (VIA tough) -> tender, untoughened -- (physically untoughened; "tender feet")

Similarity of adj inured

1 sense of inured

Sense 1
enured, inured, hardened -- (made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett)
       => tough (vs. tender), toughened -- (physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet")

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