Stony Synonyms and Antonyms

stōnē
Firm in texture
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. inflexible
  2. cruel
  3. unrelenting
Hard
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. granitic
  2. granitelike
  3. rocklike
Antonyms:
  1. soft
  2. warm
  3. friendly
  4. smiling
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Words Related to Stony

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. gravelly
  2. grassy
  3. chalky
  4. rock-strewn
  5. mossy
  6. boggy

Stony Sentence Examples

  • Its waters are lost in the arid stony plateau of the Sorl.

  • His father, Zaccheus Greeley, owned a farm of 50 acres of stony, sterile land, from which a bare support was wrung.

  • He had also proved that the interior of Australia was not a stony desert, like the region visited by Sturt in 1845.

  • The chief drawback to farming in the midland and upper districts is the considerable proportion of stony ground, and, in some cases, the lack of running water.

  • Less manure is used in these cellars than we generally see in the mushroom-houses of England, and the surface of each bed is covered with about an inch of fine white stony soil.

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