Stony
adjective
Something that is hard and cold like a stone.
His stony expression did not change throughout the meeting.
Often appears as...
- stony silence
- stony face
adjective
Characterized by or full of stones.
The stony path was difficult to walk on.
Often appears as...
- stony path
- stony ground
adjective
Not having pity or compassion.
Despite the pleading eyes of the child, the man remained stony.
Often appears as...
- stony heart
- stony refusal
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Disapproving
adjective
Something that is hard and cold like a stone.
His stony expression did not change throughout the meeting.
Often appears as...
- stony silence
- stony face
adjective
Characterized by or full of stones.
The stony path was difficult to walk on.
Often appears as...
- stony path
- stony ground
adjective
Not having pity or compassion.
Despite the pleading eyes of the child, the man remained stony.
Often appears as...
- stony heart
- stony refusal
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Coldness
Used to describe someone's demeanor as unresponsive or indifferent, often during emotional situations.
He received the bad news with a stony face, showing no reaction.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity of Silence
'Stony silence' implies a heavy, deep silence that is often uncomfortable or tense.
After the argument, there was a stony silence in the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Used for Drama
In storytelling, 'stony' can heighten the sense of conflict or seriousness in a character's reaction.
Her stony demeanor during the confrontation made him more nervous.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Coldness
Used to describe someone's demeanor as unresponsive or indifferent, often during emotional situations.
He received the bad news with a stony face, showing no reaction.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity of Silence
'Stony silence' implies a heavy, deep silence that is often uncomfortable or tense.
After the argument, there was a stony silence in the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Used for Drama
In storytelling, 'stony' can heighten the sense of conflict or seriousness in a character's reaction.
Her stony demeanor during the confrontation made him more nervous.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Coldness
Used to describe someone's demeanor as unresponsive or indifferent, often during emotional situations.
He received the bad news with a stony face, showing no reaction.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity of Silence
'Stony silence' implies a heavy, deep silence that is often uncomfortable or tense.
After the argument, there was a stony silence in the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Used for Drama
In storytelling, 'stony' can heighten the sense of conflict or seriousness in a character's reaction.
Her stony demeanor during the confrontation made him more nervous.
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Grave Secrets of...
most skilled preparator I have ever had the pleasure of meeting these are people who actually remove grain by grain and don't go mad as they're doing it and the the encasing matrix that surrounds fossils the man is an artist because he can release these fossils from their stony tombs in a way that we can actually see what they look like and
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
and de-fleshed by a multitude of bacteria, worms and insects, its bones underwent a brief metamorphosis, exchanging molecules with the groundwater and becoming more and more like the entombing rock. As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, pressure from all sides weighed in like a stony glove
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Andrew Connolly: What's...
in orbit around the sun. So every point in this visualization that you can see is a real asteroid. Its orbit has been calculated from its motion across the sky. The colors reflect the composition of these asteroids, dry and stony in the center,
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The big-beaked,...
allowing them to consume every bit of seaweed covering a stony surface. This helps parrotfish reach seaweed other fish can’t consume, while simultaneously clearing out open space for new corals to settle and existing colonies to expand.
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Did you land on the rim, down at the bottom? It was down on the bottom. And I came back afterward on the sled of the helicopter back. But it was too stony and full of cactus on top. That's exactly why I asked the question.
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How Cicadas Become...
study them and so i set out from long island i was at stony brook and drove down the east coast and we just would pull into a town and then we would ask where the skaters were and you could go into any
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Joyce Poole: The...
been seen across the northern conservancies and he's been observed seven times so far he's a real ham he's been named stony by Pat Derby who runs
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"The Second Coming" by...
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
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couldn't resist that sorry it's not too bad I promise alright let's fasten biology there's a stony silence from the final
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Ibex Fight for Mating...
stony canyons provide a sanctuary for animals throughout the Middle East like
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Grave Secrets of...
most skilled preparator I have ever had the pleasure of meeting these are people who actually remove grain by grain and don't go mad as they're doing it and the the encasing matrix that surrounds fossils the man is an artist because he can release these fossils from their stony tombs in a way that we can actually see what they look like and
Video examples
Hunting for dinosaurs...
and de-fleshed by a multitude of bacteria, worms and insects, its bones underwent a brief metamorphosis, exchanging molecules with the groundwater and becoming more and more like the entombing rock. As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, pressure from all sides weighed in like a stony glove
Video examples
Andrew Connolly: What's...
in orbit around the sun. So every point in this visualization that you can see is a real asteroid. Its orbit has been calculated from its motion across the sky. The colors reflect the composition of these asteroids, dry and stony in the center,
Video examples
The big-beaked,...
allowing them to consume every bit of seaweed covering a stony surface. This helps parrotfish reach seaweed other fish can’t consume, while simultaneously clearing out open space for new corals to settle and existing colonies to expand.
Video examples
Fly with the Jetman PIPE...
Did you land on the rim, down at the bottom? It was down on the bottom. And I came back afterward on the sled of the helicopter back. But it was too stony and full of cactus on top. That's exactly why I asked the question.
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How Cicadas Become...
study them and so i set out from long island i was at stony brook and drove down the east coast and we just would pull into a town and then we would ask where the skaters were and you could go into any
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Joyce Poole: The...
been seen across the northern conservancies and he's been observed seven times so far he's a real ham he's been named stony by Pat Derby who runs
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"The Second Coming" by...
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
couldn't resist that sorry it's not too bad I promise alright let's fasten biology there's a stony silence from the final
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Ibex Fight for Mating...
stony canyons provide a sanctuary for animals throughout the Middle East like
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Garrison Keillor
American Writer
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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Emma Walton Hamilton
British Author
Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.
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Theodore Dreiser
American Novelist
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
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G-Dragon
South Korean Musician
Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.
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Horst Koehler
German Statesman
If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
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Garrison Keillor
American Writer
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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Emma Walton Hamilton
British Author
Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.
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Theodore Dreiser
American Novelist
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Quote examples
G-Dragon
South Korean Musician
Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.
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Horst Koehler
German Statesman
If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
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