callous

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• UK, US: /ˈkæləs/
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• rhymes with -æləs
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• homophone: callus
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.

112 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: безчувствен (bezčuvstven) — emotionally hardened
• Bulgarian: безсърдечен (bezsǎrdečen) — emotionally hardened
• Catalan: insensible — emotionally hardened
• Catalan: cruel — emotionally hardened
• Chinese Mandarin: 無情的 /无情的 (wúqíng de) — emotionally hardened
• Chinese Mandarin: 鐵石心腸的 /铁石心肠的 (tiěshí xīncháng de) — emotionally hardened
• Czech: otrlý — emotionally hardened
• Danish: følelseskold — emotionally hardened
• Danish: hjerteløs — emotionally hardened
• Danish: ubarmhjertig — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: ongevoelig — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: hard — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: gevoelloos — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: bot — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: harteloos — emotionally hardened
• Dutch: afgestompt — emotionally hardened
• Finnish: tunteeton — emotionally hardened
• Finnish: kylmä — emotionally hardened
• Finnish: sydämetön — emotionally hardened
• French: endurci — emotionally hardened
• French: sans-cœur — emotionally hardened
• French: insensible — emotionally hardened
• Galician: frío — emotionally hardened
• Galician: indolente — emotionally hardened
• Galician: insensible — emotionally hardened
• Galician: desconsiderado — emotionally hardened
• Galician: endurecido — emotionally hardened
• Galician: cínico — emotionally hardened
• German: gefühllos — emotionally hardened
• German: verhärtet — emotionally hardened
• German: abgestumpft — emotionally hardened
• German: herzlos — emotionally hardened
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (daufs) — emotionally hardened
• Greek: σκληρόκαρδος (sklirókardos) — emotionally hardened
• Greek: άκαρδος (ákardos) — emotionally hardened
• Hungarian: kérges — emotionally hardened
• Hungarian: keményszívű — emotionally hardened
• Hungarian: érzéketlen — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: kaldgeðja — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: tilfinningalaus — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: harðgeðja — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: harðlyndur — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: harðbrjósta — emotionally hardened
• Icelandic: fólskulegur — emotionally hardened
• Italian: cinico — emotionally hardened
• Italian: insensibile — emotionally hardened
• Lithuanian: bejausmis — emotionally hardened
• Macedonian: бесчувстви́телен (besčuvstvítelen) — emotionally hardened
• Macedonian: бе́счувствен (bésčuvstven) — emotionally hardened
• Macedonian: немило́срден (nemilósrden) — emotionally hardened
• Māori: ueke — emotionally hardened
• Māori: ngākau-rahirahi — emotionally hardened
• Māori: tītonga — emotionally hardened
• Marathi: भावजड (bhāvjaḍ) — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: følelseskald — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: følelsesløs — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: hjerteløs — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: ufølsom — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: avstumpet — emotionally hardened
• Norwegian Bokmål: forherdet — emotionally hardened
• Plautdietsch: onemfintlich — emotionally hardened
• Polish: bezduszny — emotionally hardened
• Polish: nieczuły — emotionally hardened
• Portuguese: insensível — emotionally hardened
• Romanian: nesimțit — emotionally hardened
• Romanian: insensibil — emotionally hardened
• Romanian: fără inimă — emotionally hardened
• Russian: чёрствый (čórstvyj) — emotionally hardened
• Russian: бессерде́чный (besserdéčnyj) — emotionally hardened
• Russian: безду́шный (bezdúšnyj) — emotionally hardened
• Russian: бесчу́вственный (besčúvstvennyj) — emotionally hardened
• Serbo-Croatian: nemilosrdan — emotionally hardened
• Serbo-Croatian: bezosjećajan — emotionally hardened
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrd — emotionally hardened
• Spanish: insensible — emotionally hardened
• Spanish: cruel — emotionally hardened
• Spanish: desconsiderado — emotionally hardened
• Swedish: känslolös — emotionally hardened
• Swedish: känslokall — emotionally hardened
• Swedish: hjärtlös — emotionally hardened
• Turkish: katı — emotionally hardened
• Ukrainian: безду́шний (bezdúšnyj) — emotionally hardened
• Ukrainian: безсерде́чний (bezserdéčnyj) — emotionally hardened
• Ukrainian: нечу́лий (nečúlyj) — emotionally hardened
• Ukrainian: зачерстві́лий (začerstvílyj) — emotionally hardened
• Ukrainian: загрубі́лий (zahrubílyj) — emotionally hardened
• Bulgarian: мазолест (mazolest) — having calluses
• Catalan: callós — having calluses
• Dutch: eeltig — having calluses
• Finnish: känsäinen — having calluses
• French: calleux — having calluses
• Galician: caloso — having calluses
• Galician: calosa — having calluses
• German: schwielig — having calluses
• Hungarian: kérges — having calluses
• Hungarian: bőrkeményedéses — having calluses
• Irish: cranrach — having calluses
• Irish: fadharcánach — having calluses
• Italian: calloso — having calluses
• Latin: callōsus — having calluses
• Māori: ueke — having calluses
• Māori: utonga — having calluses
• Māori: raupā — having calluses
• Old English: wearriht — having calluses
• Polish: zgrubiały — having calluses
• Polish: zrogowaciały — having calluses
• Russian: мозо́листый (mozólistyj) — having calluses
• Serbo-Croatian: žuljevit — having calluses
• Serbo-Croatian: kalozan — having calluses
• Spanish: calloso — having calluses
• Turkish: nasırlı — having calluses
• Ukrainian: мозоля́стий (mozoljástyj) — having calluses