hard-boiled

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Adjective

hard-boiled

1. (of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.
2. (of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.
3. Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect characterizes hard-boiled fiction, a subgenre of detective fiction

Related terms

• soft-boiled
• hard-boiled fiction

Translations

• French: cuit dur
• German: hartgekocht
• Italian: sodo
• Portuguese: cozido
• Russian: вкруту́ю
• Spanish: duro

Translations

• German: hartgesotten

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of hard-boil

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