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Definitions for: Stony [adj] hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
[adj] showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
[adj] abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
The stony dart of senseless cold. --Spenser.
3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate;
perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified;
as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Stony coral. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stone coral, under
Stone.
Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, flinty, granitelike, granitic, hard, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, rocklike, rocky, rough, unsmooth
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