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Another word for callous

adjective

Completely lacking in compassion:

cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted, unfeeling. See attitude

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callous

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unfeeling, insensitive, inured, hardened, unsusceptible, uncaring, unaffected by, hard, insensible, stubborn, stiff, unbending, indurated, obdurate, insentient, insensate, inflexible, cold, coldhearted, hardhearted, unresponsive, unconcerned, impassive, apathetic, heartless, coldblooded, impenitent, unsympathetic, soulless, spiritless, toughened, blind to, deaf to, unimpressionable, tough*, hard-boiled*, thick-skinned*, case-hardened*, hard as nails*; see also cruel 2, indifferent 1.

Antonyms concerned, compassionate, sensitive.

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The man who stole from the poor was a callous thief.
That was a particularly callous act, which left her left hand painful and badly bruised.
Stealing the coats was a callous act.
The wounded are getting to be common, and people grow callous.
Making it much more difficult to retire on grounds of ill-health was a rather callous way of dealing with part of the problem.

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