callous

callous is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hardened; indurated. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Hardened; indurated.
2. adjective. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
3. verb. make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

   Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize

4. adjective. emotionally hardened

   "a callous indifference to suffering"

   "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"

   Synonyms: indurate, pachydermatous

5. adjective. having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

   "calloused skin"

   "with a workman's callous hands"

   Synonyms: calloused, thickened

Synonyms

cauterise, cauterize, indurate, pachydermatous, calloused, thickened

Common word forms

calloused, callouses, callously, callousing, callousness

Words from these letters

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