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[ stoh-nee ] / ˈstoʊ ni / SEE SYNONYMS FOR stony ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, ston·i·er, ston·i·est.full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach. pertaining to or characteristic of stone. resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness. unfeeling; merciless; obdurate: a stony heart. motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look: a hard, stony stare. petrifying; stupefying: stony fear. having a stone or stones, as fruit. Slang. stone-broke. Origin of stonybefore 1000; Middle English; Old English stānig.See stone, -y1 SYNONYMS FOR stony1 rocky, pebbly. 4 adamant, hard, flinty, pitiless, inflexible, unbending. SEE SYNONYMS FOR stony ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM stonyston·i·ly, adverbston·i·ness, nounun·ston·i·ly, adverbun·ston·i·ness, noun un·ston·y, adjective Words nearby stonyStoney Creek, Stonington, stonk, stonker, stonkered, stony, stony-broke, Stony Brook, stony coral, stony-faced, stony-hearted Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stonyRey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name. The Mad Shooter of Paris Is a ‘Natural Born Killer’|Christopher Dickey|November 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip. NYC Auction Held to Raise Funds for Stony Brook’s New Marie Colvin Center|Caitlin Dickson|June 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection. John Avlon: Vaclav Havel's Heroic Politics of Truth and Responsibility|John Avlon|December 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST She recalled the time they had walked together its stony beaches–and when Lee had lost his keys among the rocks. Inside Alexander McQueen's Memorial|Isabel Wilkinson|September 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The stony silence of IRS is compelling thousands of us to hire tax counsel and to proceed at our own risk and expense. How the Government Screwed Madoff Victims Again|Burt Ross|March 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST “It shows that my good counsel has not all fallen on stony soil,” Aline answered laughingly. Lorimer of the Northwest|Harold Bindloss With the birth of Ferdinand a new feeling awoke in Adler's stony heart—a feeling of unbounded and eternal love. More Tales by Polish Authors|Various The whole country is stony and barren, and millet is the only kind of grain that it produces. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. I|Robert Kerr They had reached a high, stony neck, or saddle, between two great crags. Harley Greenoak's Charge|Bertram Mitford And ‘when he was yet a great way off his father saw him,’ along the stony road beneath the vine-clad hills. Wit and Humor of the Bible|Marion D. Shutter
British Dictionary definitions for stony
adjective stonier or stoniestof or resembling stone abounding in stone or stones unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate short for stony-broke Derived forms of stonystonily, adverbstoniness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to stonyfrigid, expressionless, adamant, blank, callous, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, firm, hard-boiled, hardened, heartless, hostile, indifferent, inexorable, inflexible, merciless, obdurate, pitiless |