| 单词 | flinty |
| 释义 | flinty (once / 6652 pages) 1adj 2adj Something that's made of or contains flint, or hard silica rock, is flinty. Flinty soil is rough and rocky, and not the best for planting a garden. Flinty earth is studded with jagged flakes of flint, and the adjective is often used in a figurative way to capture an equally rough and stony mood or personality. Your flinty uncle, for example, might be gruff and unsmiling. Since the 16th century flinty has been used this way, to mean "hard-hearted" or "tough as flint." The "full of flint" meaning is slightly newer. WORD FAMILYflinty: flintier, flintiest, flintily+/flint: flints, flinty USAGE EXAMPLESWest’s flinty new western, “In a Valley of Violence,” is a modest, satisfying revenge flick. Salon(Dec 19, 2016) A hint of this was in the curt and flinty comments by various MEPs after David Davis had gone. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) He doesn’t suffer nonsense and he’s very blunt and flinty. Washington Post(Oct 26, 2016) 1 adj containing flint 2adj showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings his flinty gaze Syn flint, granitic, obdurate, stony hardhearted, heartless lacking in feeling or pity or warmth |
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