'Callous' definitions:

Definition of 'callous'

From: WordNet
adjective
Emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous]
adjective
Having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands" [syn: calloused, callous, thickened]
verb
Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize, cauterise]

Definition of 'Callous'

From: GCIDE
  • Callous \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]

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