thick-skinned

Speech parts

1. thick-skinned - Adjective

2. thick-skinned - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

thick skinned

Synonyms

tough-skinned stony hard cold thick cool dense tough hardened dull indifferent dim insensitive dumb impervious
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Antonyms

thin-skinned sensitive emotional sympathetic excited enthusiastic
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Examples

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. Diane Abbott

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. J. K. Rowling

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art. Romany Malco

The wine is light-bodied and acidic owing to the lack of tannins in the thick-skinned gamay grape, one of the four main varieties grown in Burgundy, and is, unusually, fermented for only a few weeks. Source: Internet

The Old World-style cider features six thick-skinned French and English heirloom apple varieties that are grown, selected and pressed by Apple Hill Farm in Concord. Source: Internet

This thick-skinned, inky grape has it all—fruit, tannin, acid—and spreads broadly over the palate, just like Burt Reynolds on a bear skin rug. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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