stony

Meaning

1. As hard as stone.
2. Containing or made up of stones.
3. Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
4. Of an action or expression such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
5. (slang) Short for stony broke: without any money.

Synonyms

rocky

flinty

hard

made of stone

stone

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rugged

granitic

gravelly

bouldered

flint

bouldery

solid

stonelike

rocklike

granitelike

obdurate

stubbed

stubbly

tough

truculent

unequal

full of rocks

full of stones

of stone

cliffy

scirrhous

made of stones

rocky place

bloody-minded

flintlike

calculous

callous

cold-hearted

craggy

cruel

crusty

gravel

graveled

gritty

immovable

mineral

petrified

rockbound

steely

stiff

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstəʊni/

Etymology

From Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (“stony, rocky”), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony”), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony”), West Frisian stienich (“stony”), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled”), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly”), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly”).