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ston·y

also ston·ey (stō′nē)

adj. ston·i·er, ston·i·est

a. Covered with or full of stones: a stony shore.

b. Made of or resembling stone: stony detritus; stony concrete.

a. Unfeeling or hardhearted; unemotional or unsympathetic: "Her tears had dried and she felt a stony kind of calm" (Adam Haslett).

b. Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive: a stony expression.

c. Emotionally numbing or paralyzing: a stony feeling of fear.

3. Slang Relating to or indulging in the use of marijuana.

ston′i·ly adv.

ston′i·ness n.

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stony

(ˈstəʊnɪ) or

stoney

adj, stonier or stoniest

1. of or resembling stone

2. abounding in stone or stones

3. unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate

4. short for stony-broke

ˈstonily adv

ˈstoniness n

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ston•y

or ston•ey

(ˈstoʊ ni)

adj. ston•i•er, ston•i•est.

1. full of or abounding in stones or rock.

2. resembling or suggesting stone, esp. in its hardness.

3. unfeeling; merciless; obdurate.

4. coldly inexpressive: a stony stare.

5. petrifying; stupefying: stony fear.

6. having stones, as fruit.

[before 1000]

ston′i•ly, adv.

ston′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	stony - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" bouldered, bouldery, rocky rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
	2.	stony - showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" flint, granitic, obdurate, flinty hardhearted, heartless - lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
	3.	stony - hard as granite; "a granitic fist" granitelike, rocklike, granitic hard - resisting weight or pressure

stony

adjective

1. rocky, rough, gritty, gravelly, rock-strewn, pebble a stony track

2. cold, icy, hostile, hard, harsh, blank, adamant, indifferent, chilly, callous, heartless, merciless, unforgiving, inexorable, frigid, expressionless, unresponsive, pitiless, unfeeling, obdurate The stony look he was giving her made it hard to think.

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pedregoso

stony

[ˈstəʊnɪ] ADJ (stonier (compar) (stoniest (superl)))

1. [ground, beach] → pedregoso; [material] → pétreo

2. (fig) [glance, silence] → glacial, frío; [heart] → empedernido; [stare] → duro

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stone

(stəun) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which rocks are composed. limestone; sandstone; a stone house; stone walls; In early times, men made tools out of stone.piedra

2. a piece of this, of any shape or size. He threw a stone at the dog.piedra

3. a piece of this shaped for a special purpose. a tombstone; paving-stones; a grindstone.piedra

4. a gem or jewel. She lost the stone out of her ring; diamonds, rubies and other stones.piedra

5. the hard shell containing the nut or seed in some fruits eg peaches and cherries. a cherry-stone.hueso

6. a measure of weight still used in Britain, equal to 6.35 kilogrammes. She weighs 9.5 stone.unidad de peso que equivale a 6, 348 kg

7. a piece of hard material that forms in the kidney, bladder etc and causes pain. cálculo, piedra

verb

1. to throw stones at, especially as a ritual punishment. Saint Stephen was stoned to death.apedrear, lapidar

2. to remove the stones from (fruit). She washed and stoned the cherries.deshuesar

ˈstony adjective

1. full of, or covered with, stones. stony soil; a stony path/beach; It's very stony around here.pedregoso

2. (of a person's expression etc) like stone in coldness, hardness etc. He gave me a stony stare.frío, glacial

ˈstonily adverb

fríamente

ˈstoniness noun

frialdad

ˌstone-ˈcold, ˌstone-ˈdead, ˌstone-ˈdeaf adjective

completely cold, dead, or deaf. He's almost stone-deaf; Your soup is stone-cold. He was stone-dead. completamente frío/tieso/sordo

ˈstoneware noun, adjective

(of) a hard type of pottery made of clay containing pieces of stone. a stoneware jug.gres

ˈstonework noun

construction done in stone, especially the stone parts of a building. cantería

leave no stone unturned

to try every possible means. The police left no stone unturned to (try to) find the child. no dejar piedra por mover

a stone's throw

a very short distance. They live only a stone's throw away from here. a tiro de piedra

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In a suit of coarse flannel with horn buttons, a yellow neckerchief with draggled ends, an old hat more russet-coloured than black, and laced boots of the hue of his stony calling, Durdles leads a hazy, gipsy sort of life, carrying his dinner about with him in a small bundle, and sitting on all manner of tombstones to dine.

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Esther's features had suddenly become stony and expressionless.

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Maybe I understood because I saw her in that early hour of the morning when even the stony Memnon sings, in that mystical light of the young day when divine exiled things, condemned to rough bondage through the noon, are for a short magical hour their own celestial selves, their unearthly glory as yet unhidden by any earthly disguise.

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All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter: All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.

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The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

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The roads were stony, having been recently mended; going over them at this pace, my shoe became looser, and as we neared the turnpike gate it came off.

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In place of the excitement of her return, and the interest it had inspired, she saw before her a long and stony highway which she had to tread, without aid, and with little sympathy.

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His face, aged and worn by suffering, looked stony.

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It was not till the fifth day that she got to Stony Stratford.

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