Definition for Callous:

• Relating to callus or to a callosity; thick- skinned, hard.

Synonyms for Callous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • indurate,
  • pachydermatous.
  •brutal (adjective)
  • inhuman.
  •cruel, insensitive (adjective)
  • apathetic,
  • careless,
  • case-hardened,
  • cold,
  • cold-blooded,
  • deaf to,
  • hard,
  • hard-bitten,
  • hard-boiled,
  • hardened,
  • hardhearted,
  • heartless,
  • impassive,
  • impenitent,
  • indifferent,
  • inflexible,
  • insensate,
  • insensible,
  • insensitive,
  • insentient,
  • inured,
  • obdurate,
  • soulless,
  • spiritless,
  • stiff,
  • stony,
  • stubborn,
  • thick-skinned,
  • torpid,
  • tough,
  • toughened,
  • unaffected,
  • unbending,
  • uncaring,
  • uncompassionate,
  • unconcerned,
  • unfeeling,
  • unimpressionable,
  • unresponsive,
  • unsusceptible,
  • unsympathetic,
  • Indurated,
  • blind to.
  •dead (adjective)
  • inert,
  • anesthetized.
  •hard (adjective)
  • firm,
  • flinty,
  • rigid,
  • solid,
  • soulless,
  • stern,
  • stiff,
  • unsparing,
  • hard,
  • hard-bitten.
  •hard-bitten (adjective)
  • hardbitten.
  •hardened (adjective)
  • irreverent,
  • case-hardened,
  • coldhearted,
  • thick-skinned,
  • Unrepenting.
  •impenitent (adjective)
  • impenitent,
  • remorseless,
  • unremorseful,
  • unrepentant,
  • uncontrite,
  • hardened.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • impassive,
  • insensate,
  • uncaring,
  • unsocial.
  •insensitive (adjective)
  • aloof,
  • anesthetized,
  • apathetic,
  • blunt,
  • cold-blooded,
  • cool,
  • detached,
  • dispassionate,
  • emotionless,
  • hard,
  • hard-boiled,
  • hardened,
  • hardhearted,
  • heartless,
  • indifferent,
  • insensitive,
  • nonchalant,
  • numb,
  • objective,
  • passionless,
  • passive,
  • ruthless,
  • stony,
  • tough,
  • uncompassionate,
  • unconcerned,
  • unemotional,
  • unfeeling,
  • unsympathetic,
  • dull.
  •insolent (adjective)
  • arrogant,
  • audacious,
  • bold,
  • brash,
  • brazen,
  • candid,
  • cheeky,
  • contemptuous,
  • defiant,
  • derisive,
  • discourteous,
  • disrespectful,
  • flagrant,
  • impertinent,
  • impolite,
  • insolent,
  • insubordinate,
  • irreverent,
  • outrageous,
  • outspoken,
  • presumptuous,
  • rude,
  • sacrilegious,
  • sarcastic,
  • saucy,
  • mouthy.
  •pitiless (adjective)
  • cruel.
  •rocklike (adjective)
  • hard.
  •senseless (adjective)
  • comatose,
  • dead,
  • dull,
  • faint,
  • insensible,
  • insentient,
  • narcotic,
  • oblivious,
  • senseless,
  • soporific,
  • swooning,
  • unconscious,
  • unperceptive,
  • blacked out,
  • trance-like,
  • aloof,
  • anesthetized,
  • insensitive,
  • numb,
  • unfeeling,
  • stupid.
  •stonyhearted (adjective)
  • Stony-hearted.
  •stuporous (adjective)
  • stuporous.

• n.

  •
  • controlled,
  • undemonstrative.
  •
  • obdurate,
  • stonyhearted,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • compassionless.
  •callous (noun)
  • cauterise,
  • cauterize,
  • indurate,
  • insensitive,
  • pachydermatous,
  • thick-skinned.
  •unfeeling (noun)
  • case-hardened,
  • cold,
  • coldhearted,
  • cruel,
  • deaf to,
  • impassive,
  • inflexible,
  • insensate,
  • inured,
  • obdurate,
  • soulless,
  • spiritless,
  • stubborn,
  • toughened,
  • unbending,
  • uncaring,
  • unimpressionable,
  • unresponsive,
  • unsusceptible,
  • Indurated,
  • blind to,
  • coldblooded.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • cauterise,
  • cauterize.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • harden,
  • stonyhearted,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • compassionless.
  •
  • unmoved.
  •harden
  • calcify,
  • calloused,
  • fossilize,
  • fossilized,
  • harden,
  • indurate,
  • toughen,
  • vitrified,
  • vitrify,
  • Calcified,
  • Casehardened.
  •impassive
  • insusceptible.
  •indurate
  • Caseharden.
  •stubborn
  • obdurate,
  • obstinate.
  •unfeeling
  • pitiless,
  • Casehardened,
  • Impassible.
  •unreceptive
  • impervious.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absurdity,
  • acne,
  • adamant,
  • adamantine,
  • anaesthetic,
  • anaesthetize,
  • animal,
  • anneal,
  • asleep,
  • austere,
  • backed,
  • baloney,
  • barbarian,
  • barbaric,
  • barbarous,
  • beast,
  • beastly,
  • benumb,
  • benumbed,
  • bosh,
  • brassy,
  • brutal,
  • brutalize,
  • brutally,
  • brute,
  • brutish,
  • burn,
  • calcify,
  • calloused,
  • callously,
  • calm,
  • careless,
  • case-hardened,
  • cauterise,
  • cauterize,
  • chewy,
  • chill,
  • chilling,
  • chilly,
  • chloroform,
  • claptrap,
  • close,
  • cobblers,
  • cold,
  • coldhearted,
  • coldly,
  • composed,
  • compressed,
  • concrete,
  • condensed,
  • conscienceless,
  • contained,
  • controlled,
  • crude,
  • cruel,
  • crusted,
  • crusty,
  • crystallized,
  • cut,
  • deaden,
  • deadened,
  • deaf,
  • deaf to,
  • demanding,
  • dense,
  • desensitized,
  • despotic,
  • dictatorial,
  • disinterested,
  • distant,
  • exacting,
  • ferocious,
  • fierce,
  • flinty,
  • forbidding,
  • formal,
  • fossilize,
  • fossilized,
  • freezing,
  • frigid,
  • frosty,
  • god-awful,
  • granite,
  • granitic,
  • granulated,
  • gross,
  • hard-bitten,
  • hard-nosed,
  • harden,
  • harsh,
  • haughty,
  • heartlessly,
  • hostile,
  • ice-cold,
  • icy,
  • illiberal,
  • impassive,
  • impenetrable,
  • imperturbable,
  • impervious,
  • implacable,
  • impregnable,
  • inaccessible,
  • inattentive,
  • incinerate,
  • inclement,
  • inconsiderate,
  • incurious,
  • indifferently,
  • indurate,
  • inert,
  • inexorable,
  • inflexible,
  • inhuman,
  • inhumane,
  • insensate,
  • insensitively,
  • insouciant,
  • insusceptible,
  • intractable,
  • inure,
  • inured,
  • jargon,
  • lackadaisical,
  • lapidify,
  • leathery,
  • listless,
  • loveless,
  • lukewarm,
  • magisterial,
  • malevolent,
  • mean,
  • merciless,
  • nonsense,
  • obdurate,
  • obdurately,
  • obstinate,
  • obtund,
  • obtuse,
  • oppressive,
  • ossified,
  • ossify,
  • pachydermal,
  • pachydermatous,
  • pachydermic,
  • palsied,
  • paralytic,
  • paralyze,
  • performance,
  • petrified,
  • petrify,
  • philistine,
  • phlegmatic,
  • pimple,
  • pitiless,
  • prim,
  • procedure,
  • proof,
  • pustule,
  • put under,
  • refractory,
  • reinforced,
  • relentless,
  • relentlessly,
  • remote,
  • removed,
  • reserved,
  • rigmarole,
  • rocklike,
  • rocky,
  • rough,
  • rugged,
  • sadistic,
  • savage,
  • sclerotic,
  • sear,
  • seared,
  • selfish,
  • serene,
  • set,
  • severe,
  • shameless,
  • sluggish,
  • solidified,
  • soulless,
  • spiritless,
  • spot,
  • standoffish,
  • steel,
  • steely,
  • stern,
  • stiffened,
  • stoic,
  • stoical,
  • stolid,
  • stonyhearted,
  • strengthened,
  • strict,
  • stubborn,
  • stun,
  • stupefy,
  • stuporous,
  • taciturn,
  • tale,
  • temper,
  • thick-skinned,
  • thicken,
  • thickened,
  • thoughtless,
  • torpid,
  • toughen,
  • toughened,
  • tripe,
  • tyrannical,
  • unaffected,
  • unapproachable,
  • unaware,
  • unbending,
  • unblushing,
  • uncaring,
  • uncharitable,
  • unchristian,
  • uncordial,
  • undemonstrative,
  • undisturbed,
  • unexcited,
  • unfeelingly,
  • unforgiving,
  • unfriendly,
  • ungracious,
  • unimpassioned,
  • unimpressionable,
  • uninterested,
  • uninvolved,
  • unkind,
  • unkindly,
  • unlikable,
  • unlikeable,
  • unloving,
  • unmelted,
  • unmerciful,
  • unmoved,
  • unnatural,
  • unpitying,
  • unreactive,
  • unrelenting,
  • unresponsive,
  • unruffled,
  • unsentimental,
  • unsocial,
  • unsparing,
  • unstirred,
  • unsusceptible,
  • unsympathetically,
  • unthoughtful,
  • untouched,
  • unyielding,
  • verruca,
  • vicious,
  • vitrified,
  • vitrify,
  • wart,
  • whelk,
  • wooden,
  • Brutify,
  • Calcified,
  • Caseharden,
  • Casehardened,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • Hebetate,
  • Impassible,
  • Imperceptive,
  • Impercipient,
  • Incrusted,
  • Indurated,
  • Inexcitable,
  • Laodicean,
  • Lapidified,
  • Numbed,
  • Obtundent,
  • Pococurante,
  • strait-laced,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • Steeled,
  • Stoney,
  • thick-witted,
  • ZIT,
  • unfelt,
  • pimples,
  • affectless,
  • compassionless,
  • ironhearted,
  • slash-and-burn,
  • take-no-prisoners,
  • horny,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • Ungiving,
  • Unrepenting,
  • blind to,
  • coldblooded,
  • hardbitten,
  • rigidified,
  • render insensible.

Antonyms for Callous:

• adj.

  • cruel, insensitive
    caring, compassionate, concerned, feeling, interested, kind, merciful, mindful, nice, responsive, sensitive, sympathetic, tender.
  • Other antonyms:
    affectionate, benevolent, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, cordial, fond, friendly, gentle, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, humane, indulgent, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, untoughened, warm, warmhearted.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    benevolent, benignant, caring, charitable, clement, compassionate, concerned, considerate, cordial, feeling, fond, friendly, gentle, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, indulgent, interested, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, mindful, sensitive, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, warm, warmhearted, Warm-hearted.