stony

Adjective
Synonyms: rockyboulderyboulderedflintyflintgraniticobdurategranitelikerocklike

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. abounding in rocks or stones“rocky fields”“stony ground”“bouldery beaches”Synonyms: rockyboulderybouldered
  2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings“his flinty gaze”“the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart”Synonyms: flintyflintgraniticobdurate
  3. hard as granite“a granitic fist”Synonyms: graniticgranitelikerocklike
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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