Flinty \Flint"y\, a. [Compar. Flintier; superl. Flintiest.]
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling,
flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
[1913 Webster]
Flinty rock, or Flinty state, a siliceous slate; --
basanite is here included. See Basanite.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flinty
adj 1: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the
child's misery would move even the most obdurate
heart" [syn: obdurate, stony]
2: having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic
morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"-
Marchette Chute [syn: granitic, unyielding]
[also: flintiest, flintier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "flinty":
Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bony, bowelless, callous,
calloused, case-hardened, cast-iron, cement, cemental, concrete,
constant, corneous, cruel, dense, diamondlike, dog-eat-dog, dour,
dure, firm, fixed, flintlike, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard,
hard as nails, hard-core, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless,
horny, immovable, immutable, impervious, implacable, impliable,
inclement, indurated, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible,
insensitive, intransigent, inured, iron, iron-hard, ironlike,
irreconcilable, lapideous, lithic, lithoid, lithoidal, loyal,
marble, marblelike, merciless, obdurate, osseous, pachydermatous,
petrified, petrogenic, pitiless, proof against, relentless,
remorseless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorous, rock,
rock-ribbed, rocklike, rocky, ruthless, set, settled, slaty, solid,
sot, staunch, steadfast, steady, steeled against, steellike,
steely, stern, stiff, stone, stonelike, stony, thick-skinned,
tough, true, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable,
uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, undeflectable,
unfeeling, unflappable, unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved,
unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting, unremorseful, unshaken,
unswerving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding,
without mercy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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