Callous
['kæləs]
Definition
(verb.) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.
(adj.) emotionally hardened; 'a callous indifference to suffering'; 'cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion' .
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Definition
(a.) Hardened; indurated.
(a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Indurated, hardened, hard.[2]. Insensible, unfeeling, apathetic, obtuse, unsusceptible, unimpressible, sluggish, dull, torpid, indifferent, dead.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Definition
adj. hardened: unfeeling or insensible.—n. Callos′ity a hard swelling on the skin.—adv. Call′ously.—n. Call′ousness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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Examples
- Come, come, said Holmes, kindly, it is human to err, and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on an absent child? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- At best, it produces a temporary emotional glow; at worst, callous indifference to moralizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Veiled for ever to the world's callous eye must be the transport of that moment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides,--the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Callous indifference and explosions from strain alternate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What a cold, callous epicure she was in all things! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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