Steely

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made of steel.
  • adj. Resembling steel, as in color or hardness: steely eyes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute.
  • adj. Made of steel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Made of steel; consisting of steel.
  • adj. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of steel; made of steel.
  • Resembling steel in some of its essential properties; hard; firm; stubborn.
  • Resembling steel in color, metallic luster, or general appearance; having more or less imperfectly the qualities or composition of steel: as, steely iron.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. resembling steel in hardness
  • adj. resembling steel as in hardness
  • Equivalent
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    hard    firm   
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