callused

English

Alternative forms

• calloused

Etymology

From callus +‎ -ed.

Adjective

callused (comparative more callused, superlative most callused)

1. Having calluses.
   • 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times‎^[1], 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.

Synonyms

• callous, callousy, callusy

Derived terms

• noncallused
• uncallused

Translations

having calluses

• Catalan: callós (ca)
• Finnish: känsäinen (fi), känsittynyt
• French: calleux (fr)
• German: schwielig (de)
• Latin: callōsus
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zrogowaciały
• Russian: мозо́листый (ru) (mozólistyj)

Verb

callused

1. simple past and past participle of callus

Anagrams

• Caudells