Flinty Synonyms

flĭntē
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. callous
  2. hard
  3. obdurate
  4. adamantine
  5. unmerciful
  6. flint
  7. impenetrable
  8. rigorous
  9. granitic
  10. steely
  11. stern
  12. unimpressible
  13. unyielding
  14. stony

Words Related to Flinty

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Flinty Sentence Examples

  • In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

  • For the latter purpose the hard, somewhat flinty grains are preferable, and they are prepared by grinding off the outer cuticle which forms " pot barley."

  • The chief crops of the farmer are wheat (which from its flinty hardness and full kernel is the specialty of the Canadian north-west), oats, barley and pease.

  • Rather, there was a flinty, somewhat austere structure giving support and contrast to rich, unctuous fruit.

  • The terroir imparts a flinty minerality to the wine, while the grapes add flavors of baked pears and figs.

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