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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stony \ston"y\, a. compar. stonier; superl. stoniest. as.
   st=anig. 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
see also:
stonier stoniest stone stony coral stone coral 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stony
     adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony
            ground"; "bouldery beaches" syn: rocky, bouldery,
             bouldered
     2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the
        child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
        syn: flinty, obdurate
     3: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" syn: granitic, granitelike,
         rocklike
     also: stoniest, stonier
see also:
rocky bouldery bouldered flinty obdurate granitic 
granitelike rocklike stoniest stonier 
[3] : 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





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