callous

1. 1.

   emotionally hardened

   “a callous indifference to suffering”

   “cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion”

   Synonymsinduratepachydermatous

   Similarinsensitive
2. 2.

   having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

   “calloused skin”

   “with a workman's callous hands”

   Synonymscallousedthickened

   Similartough

1. 1.

   make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

   Synonymscauterizecauterise

   Broaderinure

Other forms of callous

past tense

calloused·

present participle

callousing·

third person

callouses·

comparative

callouser·

superlative

callousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about callous

What does callous mean?

callous means "emotionally hardened". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in callous?

callous has 2 syllables: cal-lous. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkæləs/.

What is another word for callous?

Close synonyms include indurate, pachydermatous, calloused, thickened, cauterize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is callous a common word?

callous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with callous?

1 word rhymes with callous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.