Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with or full of stones.
- adjective Made of or resembling stone.
- adjective Unfeeling or hardhearted; unemotional or unsympathetic.
- adjective Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive.
- adjective Emotionally numbing or paralyzing.
- adjective Slang Relating to or indulging in the use of marijuana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stun.
- To astonish; confound.
- To be or become stunned or astounded.
- Containing stones; abounding in stone.
- Made of stone; consisting of stone; rocky.
- Hard like stone, but not made of stone; stone-like.
- Specifically, in anatomy and zoology, very hard, like a stone; hard as a rock.
- Sclerodermic or madreporarian, as corals.
- Lithistidan, as sponges.
- Especially thick and hard, as some opercula of shells. See
sea-bean , 3. - Petrous or petrosal, as bone.
- Otolithic, as concretions in the car. See ear-bone, ear-stone, otolith.
- Turned to stone; petrified, as a fossil.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of stone: as, a stony quality or consistency.
- Rigid; fixed; hard, especially in a moral sense; hardened; obdurate.
- Painfully hard and cold; chilling; frigid; freezing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard.
- adjective Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
- adjective Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Same as Stone coral, under
Stone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective As hard as stone.
- adjective Containing or made up of
stones . - adjective figuratively Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
- adjective figuratively Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective hard as granite
- adjective abounding in rocks or stones
- adjective showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the half-light his face was as still as a wax mannequins, his eyes unblinking, his expression stony.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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In the half-light his face was as still as a wax mannequins, his eyes unblinking, his expression stony.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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"This next one is what we call a stony-iron meteorite."
Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001
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If you believe in stony men they'll skewer your smile.
Selected Works of a Hermit Crab Written on Shells, Stones and Scales. Marcus Speh 2010
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Either you buy their Vaseline-lensed visions of the hereafter, or you watch in stony silence, as I did, wondering why there's no one to care about.
'Red' Alert: Old Stars Fire Up Thriller Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Those "sitting on their hands in stony silence" were the minority who, while they may not have agreed with the party in power, were grownups with the decorum and decency to respect the office of the president.
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That means a venue where the audience doesn't get the jokes and sits there in stony silence as the comedian at the mike goes through his routine.
Tough Room 2009
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President Obama sat in stony silence, stared at Gibson and refused to answer.
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The crowd of Republican delegates, who had been quite generous with their applause up until that point, sat there in stony silence.
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I guess the idiots who use the Better Joy Cookbook just cook and eat in stony silence, never saying a word or even looking each other in the eye.
If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books « Isegoria 2008
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