Thick-skinned

Date "thick-skinned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Synonyms: Thick-skinned

Synonyms: callous (adj), indurate (adj), pachydermatous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable; (inexcitable); unfelt.
Physical Insensibility	Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Thick-skinned

English words defined with "thick-skinned": bruiser, bull ♦ hippo, hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius ♦ river horse ♦ Samson, strapper. (references)

Etymologies containing "thick-skinned": Callid ♦ Pachydermata. (references)

"Thick-skinned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thick-skinned" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	21	76,261

Language		Translations for "thick-skinned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lëkurëtrashë (thickskin). (various references)

Arabic		‏عديم حساسية, ‏عديم الإحساس (impenetrable, stolid), ‏ثفيق الجلد. (various references)

Bulgarian		дебелокож (pachyderm). (various references)

Chinese		皮厚. (various references)

Czech		necitlivý (dead, insensible, insensitive, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible). (various references)

Finnish		paksunahkainen, paksukuorinen (thick-shelled), paksuinen (thick-shelled). (various references)

French		peu sensible (thick skin), indifférent (thick skin), apathique (thick skin). (various references)

Greek		παχύδερμοσ (pachydermatous), χοντρόπετσοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		vastagbõrû (pachyderm), érzéketlen (brutish, callous, dead pan, emotionless, have a thick skin, impassible, impassive, impervious, indifferent, inert, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numbed, seared, senseless, thick skin, unaffected, unfeeling, unmoved). (various references)

Italian		insensibile (callous, coldhearted, dead, hard-hearted, heartless, heartlessly, imperceptible, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, loveless, thick skinned, unfeeling, ungiving, unkind, unkindly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		神経の鈍い (insensitive), 無神経 (insensibility). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しんけいのにぶい (insensitive), むしんけい (insensibility). (various references)

Manx		speeineigagh (thick-skinned of fruit), reen (dogged, hard, hard-and-fast, hard-boiled, hardy, rigid, sinewy, stark, stiff, stringy, thick-skinned of person), pollan (dud, felt, pack saddle, saddle cloth, thick-skinned of person), chiu-chrackanagh (thick-skinned of fruit). (various references)

Pig Latin		ick-skinnedthay

Portuguese		pouco sensível (unresponsive), de pele grossa. (various references)

Romanian		nesimţit (callous, pachyderm, pachydermatous, stealthily). (various references)

Russian		толстокожий (callous, pachydermatous, thickskin, thickskinned). (various references)

Spanish		insensible (bloodless, cold-hearted, heartless, imperceptible, impervious, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, pachyderm, pachydermatous, regardless, unfeeling, unresponsive). (various references)

Thai		ไม่อ่อนไหวง่าย, ที่ไม่แยแส. (various references)

Ukranian		товстошкірий. (various references)

Vietnamese		vô liêm sỉ (calm, conscienceless, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), lì, không biết nhục (pachydermatous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	pachydermos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	callosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-i-k-k-n-n-s-t"
	-3 letters: chinkiest, incidents.
	-4 letters: dickiest, dinkiest, ichnites, incident, kickiest, kinetics, kinetins, kinkiest, kitchens, nitchies, shinnied, sidekick, snitched, thickens.
	-5 letters: chinked, chinned, chitins, deistic, dentins, deticks, diciest, dickens, dickies, dinkies, distich, ditches, ekistic, ethnics, hickies, hinnied, hinnies, ichnite, ickiest, identic, incised, incited, incites, indents, indices, indicts, indites, inkiest, intends, intines, kidskin, kindest, kinesic, kinetic, kinetin.
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