callous [ kal-uhs ]
The word of the day is ‘callous’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Cruel
2. Insensitive
3. Showing disregard for others.
4. Careless
1. I think you will be able to take care of yourself in a cold and callous world.
2. His callous comments about the murder made me shiver.
3. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself.
4. Is it the punishment that has made you callous to the ignominy and the pain? (https://driventheatre.com/)
5. Notwithstanding her action in this matter, Lisa was not an ill-natured or callous woman.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
apathetic, careless, cold-blooded, heartless, indifferent, insensitive, uncaring, unsympathetic, hardened, indurated, inured, toughened, deaf to, hard, hardhearted, impassive, impenitent, insensate, insentient, obdurate, soulless, spiritless, stony, stubborn, thick-skinned, torpid, tough, unaffected, uncompassionate, unconcerned, unfeeling, unsusceptible, cold-hearted, with a heart of stone, stony-hearted, lacking compassion, hard-bitten, harsh, cruel, ruthless, brutal, unconcerned, bloodless, indurate, marble-hearted etc.
caring, compassionate, concerned, kind, merciful, mindful, nice, responsive, sympathetic, sensitive, tender
Quotation:
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn’t mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Social Example:
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