Crossword clues for stonier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stony \Ston"y\, a. [Compar. Stonier; superl. Stoniest.] [AS. st[=a]nig. See Stone.]
Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
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Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
The stony dart of senseless cold.
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Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Stony coral. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stone coral, under Stone.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativestony)
WordNet
adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered]
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, obdurate]
hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike]
See stony
Usage examples of "stonier".
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis—like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground.
In his mind he suddenly heard Jud Crandall saying, The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis.
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, he thought, and the wind sang its bitter black song, and not so many miles distant, Norma Crandall, who had once knitted his daughter and son matching caps, lay in her gray steel American Eternal coffin on a stone slab in a Mount Hope crypt.
First there was the soft thud of their hooves on the oggan, then on the far stonier ground of the arroyo path.
The face and form of the pharaoh did bear a certain resemblance to Ramses, in his stonier moods.
Though I did not resist the confinement, I did manage to leave him with one of my special pitiful looks, guaranteed to induce industrial-size guilt in much stonier souls than his.
The road on which I was riding was stony and rose considerably, but just this I liked and I let it become still stonier and steeper.