stony

[stoh-nee] / ˈstoʊ ni /

ADJECTIVE

hard, icy in appearance, response

Synonyms

STRONGEST

expressionless frigid

WEAK

adamant blank callous chilly cold cold-blooded coldhearted cruel firm hard-boiled hardened heartless hostile indifferent inexorable inflexible merciless obdurate pitiless rough tough uncompassionate unfeeling unforgiving unrelenting unresponsive unsympathetic

Antonyms

WEAK

friendly smiling soft warm

Example Sentences

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What's merely humorous or bonny The Worl' regairds wi' cauld astony.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Dashing fellows; from astound or "astony," to terrify.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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