callous

[Cal·lous]

A callous person is insensitive or emotionally hardened. If you laugh at your little sister while she's trying to show you her poetry, you're being callous.

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Hardenes; indurated.

Verb
make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

Adjective S.
emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"


a.
Hardened; indurated.

a.
Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.


Callous

Cal"lous , a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.] 1. Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." Macaulay.
It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule.
Syn. -- Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. -- Cal"lous*ly, adv. -- Cal"lous*ness, n.
A callousness and numbness of soul.

Hardenes; indurated.

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Usage Examples

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

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