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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. containing flint;

2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings;
- Example: "his flinty gaze"
- Example: "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
[syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flinty \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. [1913 Webster] Flinty rock, or Flinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flinty adj 1: containing flint 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

120 Moby Thesaurus words for "flinty": Philistine, 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, pitiless, proof against, relentless, remorseless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorous, rock, rock-ribbed, rocklike, 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