Flinty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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