Flinty synonyms

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callous (related)
Lacking, or showing a lack of, pity, mercy, etc.; unfeeling
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cruel (related)
(Slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
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adamantine
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
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impenetrable
That cannot be penetrated or passed through
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hard
Using or based on data that are readily quantified or verified:
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unmerciful
Having or showing no mercy; cruel; relentless; pitiless
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obdurate
Not easily moved to pity or sympathy; hardhearted
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rigorous
Rigorous means very active or severe.
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steely
Of or like steel, as in hardness
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stern
The definition of stern is someone who is very serious or strict.
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unimpressible
Not impressible; not sensitive; apathetic.
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unyielding
Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute:
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flint
A city of southeast-central Michigan north-northwest of Detroit. Founded on the site of a fur-trading post established in 1819, it became an automobile-manufacturing center in the early 1900s.
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granitic
Of, pertaining to, or containing granite.
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stony
As hard as stone.
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chalky (related)
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gravelly (related)
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loamy (related)
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clayey (related)
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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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