callous
1
5.2
- adjective
- /ˈkæləs/
:
calloso
- He worked tirelessly in the fields, and soon his hands were covered in callous skin from the hard labor.
Examples
-
First feeling the large callous that was slowly eating up her foot, she then sprinkled powder into her sneakers and slipped them on, pressing closed the Velcro straps.
Fiction book (1990) -
It sticks to their bodies, clammy, cold, and callous.
Fiction book (1998) -
Eventually the pain fades and the callous appears.
-
Which runs the risk of leaving one callous and callused.
Blog text (18) -
The Big Bird thing has got some press because it's the least callous way that spending on PBS has ever been proposed.
Blog text (4) -
And the skin that would have blistered simply became hard like a callous and peeled off over the next few weeks.
Blog text (15) -
He lightens their burdens, and they straighten as grass rises from the weight of a callous foot.
Fiction book (1996) -
It seems like so much groupthink, or perhaps this issue about women's rights has become so important in other areas of society that the intensity of that issue in itself has somehow formed a callous over the core.
Blog text (13) -
After weeks of playing guitar, her fingers developed a callous that protected her from pain.
-
The callous on his foot indicated years of wearing ill-fitting shoes.
Synonyms
1
4.1
Having hard, thick skin on the hands or feet from repeated rubbing
1
4.4
Skin that becomes thick and hard after repeated rubbing or pressure
Has a hard outer skin that does not break easily
Compounds
How Tough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Callous comes from the Latin word callus, meaning 'hard skin', and is the same root as the English noun callus for a tough patch of skin. That's why skin called callous is thick and hard after a lot of use.