| 单词 | callous |
| 释义 | callous (once / 1717 pages) adjv A callous person is insensitive or emotionally hardened. If you laugh at your little sister while she's trying to show you her poetry, you're being callous. Callous comes from the Latin root callum for hard skin. If you walk barefoot a lot, your feet will become calloused. We usually use callous in the metaphorical sense for emotionally hardened. If someone is unmoved by other people's problems, you might say he shows a callous indifference to human suffering. WORD FAMILYcallous: callosity, calloused, callouses, callousing, callously, callousness+/callosity: callosities/callousness: callousnesses USAGE EXAMPLESTrying to shoehorn nerddom into identity politics shows callous ignorance for the systemic and daily oppression faced by genuinely marginalised people. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Downie’s brave show of stoic allyship was a stirring contrast to the callous self-interest white voters showed at the polls this fall. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) But the judge called the shooting callous and unprovoked and noted that some victims were shot in the back. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1adj emotionally hardened a callous indifference to suffering Syn indurate, pachydermatous insensitive deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive 2adj having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear calloused skin with a workman's callous hands Syn calloused, thickened tough, toughened physically toughened 3v make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals Syn|Hyper cauterise, cauterize harden, indurate, inure cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate |
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