Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊni
Adjective
- As hard as stone.
- Containing or made up of stones.
- a stony path
- Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
- Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
- She gave him a stony reception.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (hard as stone): soft
- (of a person): passionate, warm
- (of an action): warm, welcoming
Translations
hard as stone
containing stones
Old Norse: grjót
of a person
of an action
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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