All callous synonyms
calΒ·lous
C c adj callous
- cruel β Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- insensitive β deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- unsympathetic β characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- heartless β unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- careless β If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- cold-blooded β Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion.
- indifferent β without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
- apathetic β If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- uncaring β a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- hardened β made or become hard or harder.
- unbending β not bending or curving; inflexible; rigid.
- indurated β to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- inured β to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- cold β Something that is cold has a very low temperature or a lower temperature than is normal or acceptable.
- hard β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard-boiled β Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hardhearted β unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- impassive β without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- impenitent β not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate.
- inflexible β not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
- insensate β not endowed with sensation; inanimate: insensate stone.
- insensible β incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
- obdurate β unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- soulless β without a soul.
- spiritless β without spirit.
- stiff β rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
adjective callous
- pitiless β feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- cold-hearted β A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
verb callous
- vitrify β to convert or be converted into glass or a glassy substance
- indurate β to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- caked β If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
- calcified β Body tissue that is calcified has become hard because of the presence of substances called calcium salts.
- starched β a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- densify β to make or become denser
- dulling β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- callus β A callus is an unwanted area of thick skin, usually on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, which has been caused by something rubbing against it.
- firming β not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- climatize β to acclimate to a new environment.
- caking β Present participle of cake.
- calcify β to convert or be converted into lime
- concreted β constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- case-harden β to form a hard surface layer of high carbon content on (a steel component) by heating in a carburizing environment with subsequent quenching or heat treatment
- roughen β make rough
- coarsen β If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.
- fossilize β Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- fossilized β Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- calloused β A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- disciplined β having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- harden β to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
- caseharden β to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)