Another word for callous
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Adjective
Completely lacking in compassion
- Having no physical feeling or sensation; insentient.
- Not sympathetic to others; callous or hardhearted.
- Devoid of kindness or sympathy; hardhearted.
- Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable:
- Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent:
- Hardened against feeling; hardhearted:
- Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless.
- Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless.
- Lacking in feeling or compassion; pitiless and cold.
- made or become hard or harder (in various senses)
- confirmed or inveterate, esp. in wrong or immoral behavior; habitual
- Cooked by boiling in the shell to a solid consistency. Used of eggs.
- Callous; unfeeling.
- Unsentimental and practical; tough.
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Devoid of sympathy or feeling.
- Lacking feeling or emotion:
- Executed without feeling or emotion:
- Ectothermic.
See also:
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Another word for callous
Modifier
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- (simile, colloquial) Very hard; tough
- Having a thick skin or rind.
- Not easily offended.
- Largely unaffected by the needs and feelings of other people; insensitive.
- Cooked by boiling in the shell to a solid consistency. Used of eggs.
- Callous; unfeeling.
- Unsentimental and practical; tough.
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Physically hardy; rugged:
- simple past tense and past participle of toughen
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; listless.
- Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling.
- Not penitent; unrepentant.
- having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- easily affected by cold
- lacking kindness and pity; cruel
- Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless.
- Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless.
- Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
- Devoid of or not subject to emotion.
- Revealing no emotion; expressionless.
- Incapable of physical sensation.
- Not interested; indifferent.
- Not anxious or apprehensive; unworried.
- Exhibiting a lack of responsiveness.
- Lacking in feeling or compassion; pitiless and cold.
- lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- Having a low temperature:
- Being at a temperature that is less than what is required or what is normal:
- Chilled by refrigeration or ice:
- Not easily bent; stiff or rigid.
- Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
- Refusing to change one's attitude, purpose, or principles; immovable:
- Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
- Unconscious.
- Lacking sensibility; unfeeling:
- Devoid of sensation or consciousness; inanimate.
- Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable:
- Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent:
- Hardened against feeling; hardhearted:
- simple past tense and past participle of indurate
- Not yielding; inflexible:
- Aloof and often antisocial; extremely reserved:
- Difficult to bend or fold:
- Not moving or operating easily or freely; resistant:
- Lacking ease or comfort of movement; not limber:
- Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.
- Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
- Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
- Imperceptible; inappreciable:
- Very small or gradual:
- Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious:
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Devoid of concern or sympathy.
- Not susceptible to or admitting of:
- made or become hard or harder (in various senses)
- confirmed or inveterate, esp. in wrong or immoral behavior; habitual
- simple past tense and past participle of inure
- Not physically sensitive; numb.
- Lacking in sensitivity to the feelings or circumstances of others; unfeeling.
- Indifferent or inattentive:
- Having no physical feeling or sensation; insentient.
- Not sympathetic to others; callous or hardhearted.
Antonyms:
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