Callous vs Stolid - What's the difference?
callous | stolid |
Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
Having calluses.
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
* 1857 , ", verse 2.
* 1898 , ,
* 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
As adjectives the difference between callous and stolid
is that callous is emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others while stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.callous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
Synonyms
* heartless * insensitivestolid
English
Adjective
(er)- Light laughs the breeze
- In her Castle above them —
- Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
- Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence —
- Ah, what sagacity perished here!
- They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
- With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.