Meanings
comparative more calloused · superlative most calloused
- alternativeAlternative form of callused.
It was inconceivable, it astounded him, that this slender, beautiful girl of scarcely twenty should have anything, even a bitter enmity, in common with this crime-calloused man of fifty
1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg1 more example
Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.
2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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calloused. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calloused
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