Synonyms:
granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony
Meaning: hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
Synonyms:
flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony
Meaning: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
Synonyms:
rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony
Meaning: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
Usage examples
He says he's "stony" and doesn't know how he'll pull through.'
The winding path was both stony and steep, and, from a donkey's standpoint, thoroughly objectionable.
As he climbed the steep, stony steps to the door of the Baron's house, old Ursela came running down to meet him.
He kept entirely silent, and gazed incessantly upon the stony fragments heaped up in the car--worthless to-day, but of inestimable value to-morrow.
And by her tears their stony hearts were softened, and they were changed into flesh and blood again, and were good and kind for the rest of their lives.
The country the king reigned over was very large, and full of high, stony mountains and sandy deserts, so that it was not at all easy to go from one place to another.
When her feet touched the ground again, the bell was still ringing in the valley; she put her hands up to her hair, breathing quickly, and glanced up and down the stony lane.
Of the vegetable kingdom, there was not a single representative; the most meager of Arctic plants, the most insignificant of lichens, could obtain no hold upon that stony waste.
Who shall paint the look of consternation with which he gazed upon the stony rampart--rising perpendicularly for a thousand feet--that had replaced the shores of the smiling south?
The operation would be impossible if, after cementing each grain of sand, it were necessary to stop the work of the spinnerets and go to a distance to fetch further stony elements.