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Like a very hard stone
Answer for the clue "Like a very hard stone ", 8 letters:
granitic
Word definitions for granitic in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitelike , rocklike , stony ] having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute [syn: flinty , unyielding ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from granite + -ic .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or containing granite.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Granitic \Gra*nit"ic\, a. [Cf. F. granitique.] Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture. Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.
Usage examples of granitic.
The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.
Drawing on the hypothesis that continents had been formed initially from a single granitic mass that had been shattered under the weight of immense ice caps and pushed apart by polar material rushing in to ifil the gaps, they pointed to the size of the ice caps shown on the maps and stressed how much larger they were than anything previously supposed to have existed on Earth.