Stony

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Covered with or full of stones: a stony beach.
  • adj. Resembling stone, as in hardness.
  • adj. Hardhearted and unfeeling; unemotional.
  • adj. Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive: a stony expression.
  • adj. Emotionally numbing or paralyzing: a stony feeling of fear.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. As hard as stone.
  • adj. Containing or made up of stones.
  • adj. Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
  • adj. Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard.
  • adj. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
  • adj. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Containing stones; abounding in stone.
  • Made of stone; consisting of stone; rocky.
  • Hard like stone, but not made of stone; stone-like.
  • Specifically, in anatomy and zoology, very hard, like a stone; hard as a rock.
  • Sclerodermic or madreporarian, as corals.
  • Lithistidan, as sponges.
  • Especially thick and hard, as some opercula of shells. See sea-bean, 3.
  • Petrous or petrosal, as bone.
  • Otolithic, as concretions in the car. See ear-bone, ear-stone, otolith.
  • Turned to stone; petrified, as a fossil.
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of stone: as, a stony quality or consistency.
  • Rigid; fixed; hard, especially in a moral sense; hardened; obdurate.
  • Painfully hard and cold; chilling; frigid; freezing.
  • To stun.
  • To astonish; confound.
  • To be or become stunned or astounded.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. hard as granite
  • adj. abounding in rocks or stones
  • adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
  • Equivalent
    hard    unsmooth    rough    heartless    hard-hearted   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    stonier    stoniest   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hard    petrifying    petrific    inflexible    cruel    unrelenting    pitiless    obdurate    perverse    cold   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berlusconi    Bologna    Castiglione    Marconi    Maroni    Moroni    Mulroney    Shoshone    Sony    Toni   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rocky    icy    rugged    bleak    uneven    precipitous    narrow    arid    gloomy    lofty