英语词汇“stony”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	stony
释义	stony I. adjective also stoney \ˈstōnē, -ni\ (stonier ; stoniest) Etymology: Middle English stany, stony, stoony, from Old English stānig, from stān stone + -ig -y — more at stone 1. : abounding in or having the nature of stone : full of or containing many stones : rocky < an infertile stony ridge — C.B.Hitchcock > < the ground was stony under heel — David Goldknopf > 2. a. : insensitive to pity or human feeling : hardhearted, obdurate < the city wasn't so stony and inhospitable as she had believed — Ellen Glasgow > < the story should soften the stoniest of hearts — J.D.Adams > < presented a stony front to … pleas for herself and the child — S.H.Adams > b. : manifesting no movement or reaction : dumb, expressionless < their faces were stony, their eyes wide open and staring — Jan Valtin > < lighted her own cigarette … and smoked in stony, irritating silence — Clive Arden > c. : fearfully gripping : petrifying < man's … stony knowledge of his own mortality — Maeve Brennan > 3. archaic : consisting of or made of stones 4. : similar to stone in substance : hard < layers are spotted with the stony remains of ocean forms — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the shellfish crawls out of its … stony case — R.W.Emerson > 5. : stone-broke < my father and I were stony and had a lot of debts — Louis Bromfield > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English stonien, from Middle French estoner — more at astony obsolete : to numb the feelings or faculties of (a person) : stupefy, stun
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