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. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

   What they want is to provide for their families, but here's how more Democrats seem to view these hard-working Americans and their families: just statistics, just the cost of doing business, just obstacles to their ideology, this is callous. It is wrong. And it underlines the need to stand up for hard-working, middle-class coal families.

2. Dave Fairclough:

   He has rightly been handed a custodial sentence, the message to the callous criminals engaged in immigration related criminality is clear - you will be caught and the consequences will be severe.

3. Mike DeWine:

   Disposing of aborted fetuses from an abortion by sending them to a landfill is callous and completely inhumane, it is important the public be aware that these practices are taking place at these Ohio facilities.

4. Meghan McCain:

   It seems weird callous to boycott a company who supplies food to the masses and employs 4,000 people during a pandemic, no matter what your politics, who wants more people out of work? Almost every CEO, boss, person I interact with and consume products from disagrees with me.

5. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce:

   Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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