CALLOUS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Callous

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈæləs/ Listen

adjective

Callous adj.

Hardened; indurated. "A callous hand." "A callous ulcer."

Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." "It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule."

Synonyms: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. "A callousness and numbness of soul."

See images of 'Callous'

Etymology of 'Callous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Callous" Quotes from Famous Books

... she were ill," he rejoined. "But she seems to me to be simply callous and cold. She has entirely altered. Last night she was a great artist. This evening she is merely a commonplace, ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... it had been awful. The house had never been divided in its allegiance, but nobody could have remained callous to Mrs. Fulton's grief. Meals were especially awful. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton tried to make conversation. Sometimes just when it seemed as if she was going to be a little cheerful—phist! her eyes would fill with tears, and she would bolt from the room. At such times Mr. Fulton's face was a study ...

— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... callous heart the effusions of the Belgian damsel. But then I gathered my attention. For the letter went on, "Notre cher petit bebe—our dear little baby was born a week ago. Almost I died, knowing you were ...

— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence

... contradiction absolute forbid." Oh mis'ry! how I shook myself, when he Seiz'd me, and cried, "Thou haply thought'st me not A disputant in logic so exact." To Minos down he bore me, and the judge Twin'd eight times round his callous back the tail, Which biting with excess of rage, he spake: "This is a guilty soul, that in the fire Must vanish.' Hence perdition-doom'd I rove A prey to rankling sorrow in this garb." When he had thus fulfill'd his words, the flame In dolour parted, ...

— The Divine Comedy • Dante

... rapid. His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain. He achieved an internal as well as external economy. He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his ...

— The Call of the Wild • Jack London

More quotes...