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stony

or ston·ey

[ stoh-nee ]

adjective

, ston·i·er, ston·i·est.
  1. full of or abounding in stones or rock:

    a stony beach.

    Synonyms: pebbly, rocky

  2. pertaining to or characteristic of stone.
  3. resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness.
  4. unfeeling; merciless; obdurate:

    a stony heart.

    Synonyms: unbending, inflexible, pitiless, flinty, hard, adamant

  5. motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look:

    a hard, stony stare.

  6. petrifying; stupefying:

    stony fear.

  7. having a stone or stones, as fruit.
  8. Slang. stone-broke.


stony

/ ˈstəʊnɪ /

adjective

  1. of or resembling stone
  2. abounding in stone or stones
  3. unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate
  4. short for stony-broke
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈstonily, adverb
  • ˈstoniness, noun
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Other Words From

  • stoni·ly adverb
  • stoni·ness noun
  • un·stoni·ly adverb
  • un·stoni·ness noun
  • un·stony adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stony1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English stānig. See stone, -y 1
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Example Sentences

In fact, of all underwater environments, the vertical, stony walls that mark the deep-water edges of coral reefs are among the most sublime, colorful, and ancient of Earth’s biologically produced habitats.

Plankton and organic-rich sediments tumbled down the long stony walls of coral reefs.

Of course it's a big world out there, and this stony pairing had indeed been noticed before, to amusing effect.

These meteorites are so commonplace that we call them “ordinary” chondrites, or stony meteorites.

Over several days, this wine danced from bright plum flavors to stony minerality, and back again to fruit, then earth, until the flavors melded into something more complex.

Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.

It exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.

Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name.

Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.

Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection.

Why didn't he send a trooper to report at once instead of wasting time in going to Stony Crossing?

It took us all of the next day to make the trip to Stony Crossing and back by way of the place where Rutter was buried.

It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.

The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.

Why did he quit the fruitful banks of the Euphrates for a spot so remote, so barren, and so stony as Sichem?

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