Synonyms for stony
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Icy — of a person, lacking warmth and emotion
hard, hard-hearted, icy, heartless, impassive, cold, harsh, tough, pitiless, stone-cold, hardened, grim, unfeeling, stern, frosty, thick-skinned, callous, unmoved, severe, unsympathetic, unemotional, hard-boiled
2. Flinty
flinty, rock-like, granitic, obdurate, adamantine, granitelike
4. Stone-broke — ellipsis of stony broke, without any money
stone-broke, flat, poor, broke, destitute, poverty-stricken, penniless, needy, indigent, bankrupt, strapped, beggared, impecunious, impoverished, pinched, beggarly, moneyless, penurious, necessitous, oofless slang dated UK
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Containing or made up of stones.
- adj. 2
Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
- adj. 3
As hard as stone.
- adj. 4
Of an action or expression, such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion; (usually also) emotionally cold, silent, and motionless or nearly so.
Related words
- Word family
- stoniness stony-faced stony-broke
- Phrases
- stony coral stony-broke
- Other spellings
- stoney
Example sentences
- icy It was mad of him to try to swim in the icy water.
- impassive He remained impassive, with a sneer on his face.
- pitiless The revenge will be pitiless.
By length
- 3 letters
- icy2
- 4 letters
- hard1, poor1, cold1, flat1, grim1
- 5 letters
- tough1, broke1, rocky2, harsh1, stern1, needy2
- 6 letters
- severe2, frosty2, flinty2, pebbly
- 7 letters
- callous2, pinched1, unmoved2, shingly, oofless
- 8 letters
- bankrupt2, hardened2, strapped1, indigent3, pitiless3, granitic3, obdurate3, beggarly, beggared, bouldery
- 9 letters
- heartless2, destitute3, penniless3, unfeeling3, impassive3, moneyless3, penurious4, calculous, stonelike
- 10 letters
- adamantine
- 11 letters
- unemotional5, unwelcoming, impecunious, necessitous, granitelike
- 12 letters
- impoverished3
- 13 letters
- unsympathetic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (icy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- caillouteux
- Italiano
- sassoso
- Español
- pedregoso