Thick-skinned \Thick"-skinned`\, a.
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
--Holland.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
thick-skinned
adj : emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering";
"cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous,
indurate, pachydermatous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "thick-skinned":
callous, case-hardened, dull, hard-boiled, hardened, impervious,
insensate, insensitive, inured, numbed, obtuse, pachydermatous,
steeled, stolid, tough, toughened, unfeeling, unsusceptible
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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