'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
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]
Synonyms of 'callous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- hard-nosed,
- harden,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- 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