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Definition of Callous
1. Adjective. Emotionally hardened. "Cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
Similar to: Insensitive
Derivative terms: Callosity, Callousness
2. Verb. Make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.
3. Adjective. Having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear. "With a workman's callous hands"
Definition of Callous
1. a. Hardened; indurated.
Definition of Callous
1. Adjective. Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others. ¹
2. Adjective. Having calluses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Callous
1. to make or become hard [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Callous
1. Relating to a callus or callosity. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callous
Literary usage of Callous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Without callous grains, 4 to 6 lines long; joint of the pedicels not prominent
... With callous grains (or 1 or 2 of the sepals naked), 1 to 2Yi lines long; ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"toughen, inure, indurate, callous (rare). S. Referring to the feelings, morale,
etc. ... (rare), indurate, callous (fig. ..."
3. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836)
"callous SELF-CONCEIT. THE most hateful form of self-conceit is the callous form,
when it boasts and swells up on the ..."
4. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"callous Self-Conceit. The most hateful form of self-conceit is the callous form,
when it boasts and swells up on the score of its own ignorance, ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... flat, more or less wing-margined, similar in disk and ray. Pappus none, or ¡i
minute callous cup. ..."
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