Etymology
From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
callous (comparative more callous, superlative most callous)
- Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
- She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
- Having calluses.
Synonyms
Translations
emotionally hardened
- Bulgarian: безчувствен (bg) (bezčuvstven), безсърдечен (bg) (bezsǎrdečen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無情的 (cmn), 无情的 (cmn) (wúqíng de), 鐵石心腸的 (cmn), 铁石心肠的 (cmn) (tiěshí xīncháng de)
- Czech: otrlý (cs)
- Dutch: ongevoelig (nl), hard (nl), gevoelloos (nl), bot (nl), harteloos (nl), afgestompt (nl)
- Finnish: tunteeton (fi), kylmä (fi), sydämetön (fi)
- French: endurci (fr), sans-coeur (fr), insensible (fr) m and f
- German: gefühllos (de), verhärtet (de), abgestumpft (de)
- Hungarian: kérges (hu), keményszívű (hu), érzéketlen (hu)
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- Icelandic: kaldgeðja (is) m, tilfinningalaus (is) m, harðgeðja (is) m, harðlyndur (is) m, harðbrjósta (is) m, fólskulegur (is) m
- Italian: cinico (it), insensibile (it)
- Lithuanian: bejausmis (lt)
- Maori: ueke (mi)
- Polish: bezduszny
- Portuguese: insensível (pt)
- Russian: чёрствый (ru) (čórstvyj), бессердечный (ru) (besserdéčnyj), бездушный (ru) (bezdúšnyj), бесчувственный (ru) (besčúvstvennyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: nemilosrdan (sh), bezosjećajan (sh), tvrd (sh)
- Spanish: insensible (es), cruel (es), desconsiderado (es)
- Swedish: känslolös, känslokall, hjärtlös (sv)
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