Synonyms for callous
ˈkæl əscal·lous

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1. callousadjective

   Synonyms:
   heartless, astorgous

2. callousadjective

   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.

   Synonyms:
   heartless, astorgous

3. callousadjective

   Having calluses.

   Synonyms:
   heartless, astorgous

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1. callous, indurate, pachydermatousadjective

   emotionally hardened

   "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

   Synonyms:
   calloused, pachydermous, pachydermic, pachydermatous, pachydermal, thickened, indurate

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, tender, untoughened

2. calloused, callous, thickenedverb

   having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

   "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands"

   Synonyms:
   calloused, indurate, pachydermatous, thickened

   Antonyms:
   tender, untoughened, sensitive

3. callous, cauterize, cauteriseverb

   make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

   Synonyms:
   cauterise, burn, cauterize

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, tender, untoughened

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1. callousadjective

   Synonyms:
   indurated, hardened, hard

2. callousadjective

   Synonyms:
   insensible, unfeeling, apathetic, obtuse, unsusceptible, unimpressible, sluggish, dull, torpid, indifferent, dead

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1. callousadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfeeling, insensible, hardened, unimpressible

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1. List of paraphrases for "callous":

   cruel, heartless, insensitive, ruthless, merciless, zealous, officious, unforgiving, brutal, cynical, pitiless

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1. Antony Blinken:

   Bucha is not normal. Mariupol is not normal. Irpin is not normal. Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal. Stealing Ukrainian children from their families and giving them to people in Russia is not normal, we must not let President Putin’s callous indifference to human life become our own.

2. Matt Nakajima:

   The casino had no safety policies in place for floor inspection or fall prevention and had no criticism of the employees failure to pick up the trip hazard even though its own internal documents found her at fault, the casinos callous disregard for their customers safety was on full display throughout the trial.

3. Tadamichi Yamamoto:

   Compounding the callous disregard for the lives of civilians, the killing appears to be part of a wholly unacceptable effort by extremists to deter Afghan citizens from carrying out their constitutional right to take part in elections.

4. Elaine Pearson:

   The junta's barbarity and callous disregard for human life aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement, european Union member states, the United States, and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes.

5. Cyril Ramaphosa:

   In death, she has demonstrated that our many differences along political party and racial lines and the numerous disputes we may have are eclipsed by our shared desire to follow her lead in building a just, equitable and caring society, loudly and without apology, she spoke truth to power. It was those in power who, insecure and fearful, visited upon her the most vindictive and callous retribution. Yet, through everything, she endured. They could not break her. They could not silence her.