stony

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}]
    

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.
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   2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
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            The stony dart of senseless cold.     --Spenser.
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   3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate;
      perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified;
      as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
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   {Stony coral}. (Zool.) Same as {Stone coral}, under {Stone}.
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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