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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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Translations

حَجَري، صَخْري، مُغَطّى بالحِجارَهقاسٍ، جاف

kamenitýledový

isnende

steinern steinig

pedregoso

rocailleux

köves

grÿtturkaldur

pietroso freddo

steinet steinhard

kamenistý

kamnit

buz gibisoğuktaşlı

冷酷的多石的

stony

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

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

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

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stony

[ˈstəʊni] adj

[ground, track] → pierreux/euse, rocailleux/euse

[voice] → blanc(blanche); [silence] → de plomb; [expression, look] → de marbre
Her voice was stony → Elle avait la voix blanche.stony-broke [ˌstəʊniˈbrəʊk] adj (British) → fauché comme les blés stony-faced [ˌstəʊniˈfeɪst] adj → au visage impassible

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stony

adj (+er) ground, beach → steinig; texture → steinartig; (fig) glance, silence → steinern; person, welcome → kalt; face → undurchdringlich

stony

stony-broke

adj (Brit inf) → völlig abgebrannt (inf), → total blank or pleite (inf)

stony-faced

adj (= solemn) → ernst; (= impassive) → mit steinerner Miene

stony-hearted

adj → kaltherzig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stony

[ˈstəʊnɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (ground) → sassoso/a; (beach) → pieno/a di ciottoli (fig) (glance, silence) → freddo/a
a stony heart → un cuore di pietra

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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.

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

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

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

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

6. a measure of weight still used in Britain, equal to 6.35 kilogrammes. She weighs 9.5 stone.

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

verb

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

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

ˈstony adjective

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

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

ˈstonily adverb

ˈstoniness noun

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.

ˈstoneware noun, adjective

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

ˈstonework noun

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

leave no stone unturned

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

a stone's throw

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

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