thick-skinned
thick-skinned adjective: having a thick skin.
Adjective
thick-skinned (comparative thicker-skinned, superlative thickest-skinned)
- Having a thick skin.
- Not easily offended.
- Insensitive to the feelings of others; callous.
- Obtuse, thick, intellectually dull or insensitive.
- They that are ſo thick skinned as ſtill to credit the ſtory of the Phœnix, may ſay ſomething for animall burning: […]1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 1
thick-skinned meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
thick-skinned in Malayalam
- insensitive, unfeeling, tough
- തൊലിക്കട്ടിയുള്ള, സംവേദനക്ഷമത കുറഞ്ഞ, തഴമ്പിച്ച, വികാരരഹിതനായ, നിർവ്വികാരമായ, ദയയില്ലാത്ത
thick-skinned in Kannada
- ಜಡ್ಡು, ಮಾಂದ್ಯ, ಎಮ್ಮೆ ಚರ್ಮದ, ಮಂದ ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ
Antonyms of thick-skinned
Forms of thick-skinned
| comparative | thicker-skinned |
|---|---|
| superlative | thickest-skinned |
Words formed from thick-skinned
Questions about thick-skinned
- What does thick-skinned mean?
- Thick-skinned means having a thick skin.
- What is thick-skinned in Malayalam?
- Thick-skinned in Malayalam is തൊലിക്കട്ടിയുള്ള, സംവേദനക്ഷമത കുറഞ്ഞ, തഴമ്പിച്ച. See Thick-skinned meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is thick-skinned?
- Thick-skinned is an adjective.
Words near thick-skinned in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thick-skinned (page history and authors); thick-skinned (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); thick-skinned (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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