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- pronunciation:
- kae
lihs
- parts of speech:
- adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
insensitive; unfeeling; hardhearted.
Their unwillingness to help showed a callous disregard for the suffering of others.The war had made the him callous, and he felt no sympathy for the plight of the villagers.- synonyms:
- hardhearted, heartless, indurate, insensitive, unfeeling
- antonyms:
- compassionate, kind, sensitive
- similar words:
- apathetic, cold, cold-hearted, cruel, indifferent, inhuman, obdurate, stony, stonyhearted
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| definition 2: |
having calluses; hardened; thickened.
She saw from his callous hands that he'd been hard at work in the garden.- synonyms:
- callused, hardened, horny, indurate, indurative, thickened
- similar words:
- hard, thick-skinned, tough
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| related words: |
brutal, brute, heartless, jaded, obtuse, unkind |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
callouses, callousing, calloused |
| definition: |
to cause to become callous.
My father was an unfeeling man whose harsh upbringing had calloused him.The long marches calloused the soldier's feet.- synonyms:
- callus, harden
- similar words:
- toughen
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
of parts of the skin, to become hardened and thick.
Her hands calloused from all the hard work. |
| derivations: |
callously (adv.), callousness (n.) |
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