stony

Adjective Satellite

• abounding in rocks or stones
  • "stony ground"
• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
• hard as granite

Adj

• As hard as stone.
• Containing or made up of stones.
• Lacking warmth and emotion.
• Showing no warmth of emotion.
• Ellipsis of stony broke: without any money.

Adjective

• Full of stones; hard, unfeeling, or expressionless.

Examples

• a stony path
• Her STONY silence after my bingo indicated her displeasure with my gameplay.
• She gave him a stony reception with a stony silence.

Synonyms

bouldered, bouldery, flint, flinty, granitelike, granitic, obdurate, rocklike, rocky, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cool, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, dour, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard up, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, humorless, icy, impassive, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insensitive, insolvent, iron-hearted, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, pebbly, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, rigorous, rock hard, rockhearted, severe, shillingless, shingly, skint, stern, stone-broke, stonehearted, stony, stony-broke, stonyhearted, strapped, strict, stuck, threadbare, tough, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved, unsympathetic, unwealthy, unwelcoming, wealthless

Antonyms

passionate, soft, warm, welcoming

Anagrams of stony