Usually means: Insensitive to others' feelings, hardened.
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  1. callous: Merriam-Webster
  2. callous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. callous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. callous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. callous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Callous, callous: Wordnik
  7. callous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. callous: Wiktionary
  9. callous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. callous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. callous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. callous: Dictionary.com
  13. callous (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. callous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Callous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Callous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. callous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. callous: Rhymezone
  19. callous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. callous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. callous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. callous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. callous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. callous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. callous-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. callous: Legal dictionary

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  1. callous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. callous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. callous: Sound Alike Words
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  5. callous: Medical dictionary

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  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

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  1. Callous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See calloused as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
adjective:  (literal) Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
noun:  Alternative form of callus [A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.]
verb:  Alternative form of callus [(intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.]

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