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WOTD: callous

Posted on October 2, 2020September 24, 2020 by Wordsmyth

adjective

1. insensitive; unfeeling; hardhearted.
Their unwillingness to help showed a callous disregard for the suffering of others.
The war had made the him callous, and he felt no sympathy for the plight of the villagers.

2. having calluses; hardened; thickened.
She saw from his callous hands that he’d been hard at work in the garden.

transitive & intransitive verb

to become or cause to become callous.
The long marches calloused the soldier’s feet.

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