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calloused

calloused is the alternative form of callused.

Meaning of callused

Adjective

callused (comparative more callused, superlative most callused)

  1. Having calluses.
    • 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...

Forms of calloused

comparativemore calloused
superlativemost calloused

Origin of calloused

From callous + -ed.

Words formed from calloused

Questions about calloused

What is calloused the alternative form of?
Calloused is the alternative form of callused.

Words near calloused in the dictionary

  1. callosumectomy
  2. callot
  3. Callotian
  4. callots
  5. callous
  6. calloused
  7. callouses
  8. callousing
  9. callously
  10. callousness
  11. callousnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calloused (page history and authors); callused (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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