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thick-skinned
" Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing."
George Eads

Meaning of "thick-skinned" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THICK-SKINNED

thick-skinned


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THICK-SKINNED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thick-Skinned is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES THICK-SKINNED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of thick-skinned in the English dictionary

The definition of thick-skinned in the dictionary is insensitive to criticism or hints; not easily upset or affected.



WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THICK-SKINNED

thick · thick client · thick ear · thick skin · thick-knee · thick-knit · thick-lipped · thick-skulled · thick-witted · thick-wittedly · thick-wittedness · thicken · thickener · thickening · thicket · thicketed · thickety · thickhead · thickheaded · thickheadedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE THICK-SKINNED

banned · binned · chinned · dark-skinned · dinned · fair-skinned · finned · ginned · grinned · pale-skinned · pinned · sequinned · shinned · sinned · skinned · thin-skinned · thinned · tinned · twinned · underpinned · unpinned

Synonyms and antonyms of thick-skinned in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «THICK-SKINNED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «thick-skinned» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «thick-skinned» into 25 languages

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The translations of thick-skinned from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thick-skinned» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

脸皮厚
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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de piel gruesa
570 millions of speakers
en

English

thick-skinned
510 millions of speakers
hi

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मोटी चमड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

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سميكة البشرة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

толстокожий
278 millions of speakers
pt

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casca-grossa
270 millions of speakers
bn

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পুরু চর্মযুক্ত
260 millions of speakers
fr

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apathique
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Berkulit tebal
190 millions of speakers
de

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dicke Haut
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

皮の厚い
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

두꺼운 피부
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nglukis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có da dầy
80 millions of speakers
ta

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தடித்த தோல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

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जाड घाबरणारा
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Kalın cidarlı
70 millions of speakers
it

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insensibile
65 millions of speakers
pl

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gruboskórny
50 millions of speakers
uk

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товстошкірий
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nesimțit
30 millions of speakers
el

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χοντρόπετσος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dikvellig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

okänslighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tykk - skinned
5 millions of speakers

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4 QUOTES WITH «THICK-SKINNED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word thick-skinned.
1
Diane Abbott
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
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George Eads
Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.
3
Joanne Harris
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
4
Bryan Robson
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THICK-SKINNED»

Discover the use of thick-skinned in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thick-skinned and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hand-List of the Edentate, Thick-skinned and Ruminant ...
Forty-two Plates of Skulls, & c J. E. Gray. 3. RHINASTER, G'ray, Cat. Carniv. (£0. p. 316. * Rhinaster, Gray, Cat. Oa/rmlv. 150. p. 316. 1. RHINASTER BICORNIS, Gray, Oat. (Ja/rm'v. do. 1). 316. R. bicornis, Smith, Ill. Zool. S'. A. t. ii. (animal).
J. E. Gray, 1873
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The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
I have found Rosenfeld's (1987) thinking about thin- and thick- skinned narcissistic patients to be very helpful in this area. He refers to thin-skinned narcissistic patients as having been repeatedly severely traumatized as children in their ...
Jackie Gerrard, 2011
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Styles of Continental Contraction
Coexistence. of. thin-. and. thick-skinned. tectonics: An. example. from. the. Central. Apennines,. Italy. Vittorio Scisciani* and Raffaele Montefalcone Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università “G. D'Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy ...
Stefano Mazzoli, Robert W. H. Butler, 2006
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Key Papers on Borderline Disorders: With IJP Internet ...
In 'thick-skinned' narcissists, the survival of an idealised self is paramount. The analyst is experienced as someone who wishes to dismantle the patient's self, to effect a cure and to engender dependence. As a result, analytic sessions become  ...
Paul Williams, 2002
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Kinematic Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold-and-thrust ...
The basement uplifts of the thick- skinned belts may consist of fault blocks whose uplift and rotation caused forced folding of the cover sequences that drape relatively unfolded basement rocks (e.g. USA Rocky Mountain foreland, Prucha et al.
J. Poblet, Richard J. Lisle, 2011
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Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Herbert Rosenfeld (1987) eventually classified what he called narcissistic patients as thin-skinned or thick-skinned. And the patients I am describing who find the analyst's objectivity intolerable he would have called thinskinned, in contrast with ...
Ronald Britton, 2003
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Thick-Skin-Dominated Orogens: From Initial Inversion to Full ...
Like the other transects, thick-skinned tectonics dominates much of the section ( especially the central and eastern parts), although there is a thin-skinned belt in the westernmost part of the section (Fig. 2). The total amount of shortening from ...
M. Nemčok, A. Mora, J.W. Cosgrove, 2013
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Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in ...
LARAMIDE UPLIFTS AND THICK-SKINNED DEFORMATION Some of the more enigmatic geologic features of the Cordi- lleran orogen are the Late Cretaceous to Eocene basement-involved Laramide uplifts and associated basins of the ...
Robert S. Hildebrand, 2009
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Feeling, Being, and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on ...
As an excellent example of the cross-fertilization between these categories, Britton expands on Rosenfeld's (1987) terms of "thick- skinned" and "thin-skinned " narcissism. Britton describes the thick-skinned narcissist as schizoid, having a ...
Marcus West, 2007
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Geology and Geophysics of an Arc-continent Collision, Taiwan
Our study suggests that the contribution of thick-skinned tectonics to the structure of the fold-and-thrust belt of western Taiwan is not less than that of thin- skinned tectonics. The structural style in the fold-and-thrust belt of the Taiwan orogen is ...
Timothy Briggs Byrne, Char-Shine Liu, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THICK-SKINNED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thick-skinned is used in the context of the following news items.
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Modi government is thick-skinned, says Azad
In an interview with Karan Thapar, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad says that the Narendra Modi-led government is thick-skinned and ... «India Today, Jul 15»
2
THICK-SKINNED RAHMAN DAHLAN: S'wak Report blocked becos …
KOTA KINABALU - Access to Sarawak Report has been blocked because the Government wants to make it known that it will no longer tolerate lies and endless ... «Malaysia Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
My job as a Wimbledon umpire: you need to be thick-skinned and calm
The matches can get heated and intense, so you also need to be thick-skinned. The games are tense, even just while watching, but when you're officiating there ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Thick-skinned traveling tortoise No. 2 turns up
This tortouise, found by Kailyn Hartt while she was cutting hay in Big Sky Estates in Post Falls on Monday and clipped it with the equipment, was returned to its ... «Coeur d'Alene Press, Jun 15»
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'Become More Thick-Skinned': Jeff Ross, Maher Agree with Seinfeld …
Screen Shot 2015-06-12 at 10.46.15 PM Bill Maher and comedian/roastmaster Jeff Ross both agreed tonight that Jerry Seinfeld was right on the money in ... «Mediaite, Jun 15»
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HOW THICK-SKINNED: Accused of lying to cover up 1MDB …
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today said that he too wants answers "quickly" on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) controversy but added that ... «Malaysia Chronicle, Jun 15»
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Public urged to sue thick-skinned pols campaigning early
“Epal” is a play on the words “mapapel”—Filipino slang for a scene stealer or an attention seeker—and “kapal,” someone who is thick-skinned. Bautista said the ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
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THICK-SKINNED CABINET? Nazri insists 'no ultimatum', PM merely …
Senior minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz has denied that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak issued an ultimatum to cabinet ministers over the 1MDB issue. «Malaysia Chronicle, Jun 15»
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Darren Clarke unconcerned about heckling of 'thick-skinned
That's what he does. You know, it's part of the modern game. Poults gets a bit of it as well (but) these guys are professionals, they are thick-skinned and it's part ... «Irish Independent, May 15»
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THICK-SKINNED OR DESPERATE? Najib REAFFIRMS HIMSELF …
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today reaffirmed his legitimacy as Umno president and the first leader to be picked through a ... «Malaysia Chronicle, May 15»
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