Meaning of FLINTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'flintee
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- [adj] having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute
- [adj] showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
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| | Synonyms: | | granitic, hardhearted, heartless, inflexible, obdurate, stony, unyielding |
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| | Definition: | | \Flint"y\, a. [Compar. {Flintier}; superl. {Flintiest}.]
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling,
flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
{Flinty rock}, or {Flinty state}, a siliceous slate; --
basanite is here included. See {Basanite}.
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| | Related Terms: | | adamant, adamantine, bony, bowelless, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cast-iron, cement, cemental, concrete, constant, corneous, cruel, dense, diamondlike, dog-eat-dog, dour, dure, firm, fixed, flintlike, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard as nails, hard-core, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, horny, immovable, immutable, impervious, implacable, impliable, inclement, indurated, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, insensitive, intransigent, inured, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, irreconcilable, lapideous, lithic, lithoid, lithoidal, loyal, marble, marblelike, merciless, obdurate, osseous, pachydermatous, petrified, petrogenic, Philistine, pitiless, proof against, relentless, remorseless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorous, rock, rocklike, rock-ribbed, rocky, ruthless, set, settled, slaty, solid, sot, staunch, steadfast, steady, steeled against, steellike, steely, stern, stiff, stone, stonelike, stony, thick-skinned, tough, true, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, undeflectable, unfeeling, unflappable, unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unrelenting, unremorseful, unshaken, unswerving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, without mercy |
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