About The Word Callous
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Callous
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What's The Definition Of Callous?
[adj] emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
[v] make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals Synonyms | Synonyms for Callous: cauterise | cauterize | indurate | insensitive | pachydermatous | thick-skinned Related Terms | Find terms related to Callous: anneal | apathetic | asleep | backed | benumbed | brazen | brutalize | calcified | calcify | calloused | case harden | case-hardened | cold | cold of heart | coldblooded | coldhearted | conscienceless | cornify | crusted | crusty | crystallized | dead | deadened | dull | firm | flinthearted | flinty | fossilize | fossilized | granulated | hard | hard of heart | hard-boiled | harden | hardened | hardhearted | hard-nosed | heartless | hornified | impassible | impenitent | imperceptive | impercipient | impervious | incrusted | indifferent | indurate | indurated | insensate | insensible | insensitive | insentient | insolent | inure | inured | lapidified | lapidify | lithify | lost to shame | numb | numbed | obdurate | obtuse | ossified | ossify | pachydermatous | petrified | petrify | Philistine | proof against | reinforced | rigidified | sclerotic | seared | set | shameless | solidified | steel | steeled | steeled against | steely | stiffened | stony | stonyhearted | strengthened | temper | thick-skinned | thick-witted | tough | toughen | toughened | unabject | unblushing | uncaring | uncompassionate | uncontrite | unemotional | unfeeling | unfelt | unmelted | unmerciful | unnatural | unperceptive | unrepentant | unrepenting | unresponsive | unsoftened | unsympathetic | untouched | vitrified | vitrify See Also | harden | indurate | inure Callous In Webster's Dictionary \Cal"lous\, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum,
callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.]
1. Hardened; indurated. ``A callous hand.'' --Goldsmith. ``A
callous ulcer.'' --Dunglison.
2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
``The callous diplomatist.'' --Macaulay.
It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to
ridicule. --T. Arnold.
Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible;
unfeeling; unsusceptible. See {Obdurate}. --
{Cal"lous*ly}, adv. -- {Cal"lous*ness}, n.
A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley.
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