Stony

Adjective

 * 1) As hard as stone.
 * 2) Containing or made up of stones.
 * a stony path
 * 1)  Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
 * 2)  Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
 * She gave him a stony reception.

Synonyms

 * (hard as stone): as hard as iron, as hard as a rock, rock-hard
 * (containing stones): pebbly, rocky, shingly
 * (of a person): cold, cool, hard-hearted, heartless, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling
 * (of an action): cold, cool, frosty, unwelcoming

Antonyms

 * (hard as stone): soft
 * (of a person): passionate, warm
 * (of an action): warm, welcoming

Adverbs for Stony
roughly; unpleasantly; ruggedly; disagreeably; impassably; curiously; amazingly; indescribably; terribly; unmanageably; cruelly.

Thesaurus
Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bankrupt, beat, beggared, bony, broke, busted, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, coldhearted, concrete, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, dense, destitute, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat broke, flintlike, flinty, fortuneless, frigid, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, icy, impervious, implacable, indifferent, indigent, indurated, inflexible, insensible, insensitive, intractable, inured, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, merciless, monolithic, needy, obdurate, oofless, osseous, pachydermatous, pebbled, pebbly, penniless, pitiless, poor, porphyritic, poverty-stricken, proof against, ragged, resistant, resistive, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, steeled against, steellike, steely, stone-broke, stonelike, strapped, thick-skinned, tough, trachytic, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsentimental, unsympathetic, wrinkled

Translations

 * Polish:


 * German: steinern
 * Old Norse: grjót


 * Polish: kamienisty

Derived terms

 * stoniness
 * stony-faced

Anagrams

 * Tonys
 * Tyson