stony
Meanings
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.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, bouldered, bouldery, 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, flint-hearted, flinty, forbidding, frosty, granitelike, granitic, 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, obdurate, oofless, pauperized, pebbly, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, rigorous, rock hard, rockhearted, rocklike, rocky, 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
Scrabble Score: 8
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