- callous⇄adj. 1. having a callus; hard; hardened.
Ex. Going barefoot makes the bottoms of your feet callous.
2. (Figurative.) unfeeling; not sensitive.
Ex. Only a callous person can see suffering without trying to relieve it.
(SYN) insen - callous⇄adv. callously.
- callous⇄callous, adjective, verb.
- callous⇄noun callousness.
- callous⇄v.t. to harden or make callous.
Ex. Since Gorki wrote, two wars and a wave of sociological drama have calloused us to squalor (Punch).