stoney
stony
or ston·ey
- full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- pertaining to or characteristic of stone.
- resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness.
- unfeeling; merciless; obdurate: a stony heart.
- motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look: a hard, stony stare.
- petrifying; stupefying: stony fear.
- having a stone or stones, as fruit.
- Slang. stone-broke.
Origin of stony
Synonyms for stony
Examples from the Web for stoney
Contemporary Examples of stoney
But Stoney, who has 116 caps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer in England.
The only character in A Week in Winter who fails to recognize this is sent packing from Stoney House.
Anderson did have another longtime friend, Stoney Curtis of Lethal Hardcore, a company where Anderson did most of his work.
Santorum said to the hundreds of people at his victory party in the Stoney Creek Inn in Johnston, Iowa.
Historical Examples of stoney
Berry-time was most over, so then I got a place to Miss Stoney's, the milliner.
They are stoney ground hearers who "are offended when persecution ariseth because of the word."
Sermons on Various Important SubjectsAndrew Lee
This was the schooner Kent, of about two hundred tons, skippered by a man known as "Stoney."
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855E. Keble Chatterton
"Stoney" was taken out of her, and he was said to be an outlaw whose real name was George Fagg.
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855E. Keble Chatterton
The shore beyond it looked rugged and craggy, and the land equalled the most sterile and stoney that had been seen.
Stoney
- a member of a Native Canadian people of Alberta
Word Origin for Stoney
stony
stoney
- of or resembling stone
- abounding in stone or stones
- unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate
- short for stony-broke