callous
Plural: callouses
Verb
Verb Forms: calloused, callousing, callouses
- To make or become hardened, emotionally or physically.
- make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
- Alternative form of callus.
Adjective Satellite
- emotionally hardened
- "a callous indifference to suffering"
- having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
- "calloused skin"
- "with a workman's callous hands"
Adj
- Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
- Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
Noun
- Alternative form of callus.
Examples
- Repeated losses in Words With Friends can CALLOUS a player to defeat.
- She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Synonyms
calloused, cauterise, cauterize, indurate, pachydermatous, thickened, callous, callousy, callused, callusy, cold, cold-eyed, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unmoved, unsympathetic
Scrabble Score: 9
callous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcallous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
callous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary