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callous 音标拼音: [k'æləs] a. 麻木的,无情的,坚硬的,硬结的,起老茧的
vt. 使硬结,使麻木 麻木的,无情的,坚硬的,硬结的,起老茧的使硬结,使麻木 callous adj 1: emotionally hardened; " a callous indifference to suffering"; " cold- blooded and indurate to public opinion" [ synonym: { callous}, { indurate}, { pachydermatous}] 2: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear; " calloused skin"; " with a workman' s callous hands" [ synonym: { calloused}, { callous}, { thickened}] v 1: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [ synonym: { callous}, { cauterize}, { cauterise}] Callous \ Cal" lous\, a. [ L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.] 1. Hardened; indurated. " A callous hand." -- Goldsmith. " A callous ulcer." -- Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. " The callous diplomatist." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. -- T. Arnold. Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See { Obdurate}. -- { Cal" lous* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] A callousness and numbness of soul. -- Bentley. [ 1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " callous": Philistine, anneal, apathetic, asleep, backed, benumbed, brazen, brutalize, calcified, calcify, calloused, case harden, case- hardened, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, conscienceless, cornify, crusted, crusty, crystallized, dead, deadened, dull, firm, flinthearted, flinty, fossilize, fossilized, granulated, hard, hard of heart, hard- boiled, hard- nosed, harden, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hornified, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient, impervious, incrusted, indifferent, indurate, indurated, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inure, inured, lapidified, lapidify, lithify, lost to shame, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, ossified, ossify, pachydermatous, petrified, petrify, proof against, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steel, steeled, steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, stonyhearted, strengthened, temper, thick- skinned, thick- witted, tough, toughen, toughened, unabject, unblushing, uncaring, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic, untouched, vitrified, vitrify |
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