calloused

English

Etymology

From callous +‎ -ed.

Adjective

calloused (comparative more calloused, superlative most calloused)

1. Alternative form of callused.
   • 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:

     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

   • 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 5 November 2025:

     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.

Derived terms

• uncalloused