flinty

Adjective

• Resembling flint; hard, unyielding, or stern.
• containing flint

Adjective Satellite

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
  • "his flinty gaze"

Adj

• Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
• Siliceous (including basanite).
• Showing a lack of emotion.
• Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

Examples

• flinty rock
• flinty slate
• His flinty determination kept him playing even when behind by a hundred points.

Synonyms

flint, granitic, obdurate, stony

Related Words

FLINTILY

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