Found 3 hits - Term: stony, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [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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