Antonyms 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"

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, tender, untoughened

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

2. calloused, callous, thickenedverb

   having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

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

   Antonyms:
   tender, untoughened, sensitive

   Synonyms:
   calloused, indurate, pachydermatous, thickened

3. callous, cauterize, cauteriseverb

   make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, tender, untoughened

   Synonyms:
   cauterise, burn, cauterize

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1. callousadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfeeling, insensible, hardened, unimpressible

How to use callous in a sentence?

1. Richard Dawkins:

   Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

2. Barack Obama:

   Luke was a photojournalist who sought through his images to convey the lives of Yemenis to the outside world, the callous disregard for Luke’s life is more proof of the depths of AQAP’s depravity, and further reason why the world must never cease in seeking to defeat their evil ideology.

3. Rand Paul:

   The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

4. Timothy Piazza:

   This is torture, this was callous and cold and inhumane.

5. Alex Arreaza:

   The failure of Broward County Public Schools and of the Principal and School Resource officer to adequately protect students, and in particular our client, from life-threatening harm were unreasonable, callous and negligent.

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