Callous
Callous adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: the callous comment “It's just a fish,” when the boy's pet died, made him cry
Desensitized and callous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Desensitized" instead an adjective "Callous".
Desensitized
Desensitized adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: having lived through the horrors of war, the soldiers had seemingly become desensitized to virtually all human suffering
Callous and desensitized are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Callous" instead an adjective "Desensitized".
Nearby Words: desensitised, desensitizing
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- dull and callous
- dull and desensitized
- hard and callous
- hard and desensitized
- unfeeling and callous
- unfeeling and desensitized
- cold and callous
- cold and desensitized
- indifferent and callous
- indifferent and desensitized
- apathetic and callous
- apathetic and desensitized
- numb and callous
- numb and desensitized
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Desensitized and Callous. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/callous/desensitized
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