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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. abounding in rocks or stones;
- Example: "rocky fields"
- Example: "stony ground"
- Example: "bouldery beaches"
[syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony]

2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings;
- Example: "his flinty gaze"
- Example: "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
[syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony]

3. hard as granite;
- Example: "a granitic fist"
[syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stony \Ston"y\, a. [Compar. Stonier; superl. Stoniest.] [AS. st[=a]nig. See Stone.] 1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. [1913 Webster] 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. [1913 Webster] The stony dart of senseless cold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze. [1913 Webster] Stony coral. (Zool.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stony adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony] 3: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "stony": Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bankrupt, beat, beggared, bony, broke, busted, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, coldhearted, concrete, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, dense, destitute, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat broke, flintlike, flinty, fortuneless, frigid, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, icy, impervious, implacable, indifferent, indigent, indurated, inflexible, insensible, insensitive, intractable, inured, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, merciless, monolithic, needy, obdurate, oofless, osseous, pachydermatous, pebbled, pebbly, penniless, pitiless, poor, porphyritic, poverty-stricken, proof against, ragged, resistant, resistive, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, steeled against, steellike, steely, stone-broke, stonelike, strapped, thick-skinned, tough, trachytic, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsentimental, unsympathetic, wrinkled