stony

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

stonierstoniest

Superlative

stoney

1.
As hard as stone.
a stony polymer
Đồng nghĩa: rock hard, stonelike
2.
Containing or made up of stones.
a stony path
Đồng nghĩa: pebbly, rocky, shingly
3.
(figuratively)Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
a stony grandmother
Đồng nghĩa: stone cold, cold, cool, hardhearted, heartless, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved
4.
(figuratively)Of an action or expression, such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion; (usually also) emotionally cold, silent, and motionless or nearly so.
a stony reception
a stony look
a stony silence
Đồng nghĩa: stone cold, cold, cool, frosty, unwelcoming
5.
(Australia, UK, abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, slang)(UK and Australia, slang) Ellipsis of stony broke: without any money.
Đồng nghĩa: stone broke, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless

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Đồng nghĩa

rock hardstonelike pebbly rocky shinglystone coldcold coolhardheartedheartlessimpassive unemotional unfeeling brutal callouscold-eyedcruel dourflint-heartedforbidding

Trái nghĩa

soft passionate warm welcoming

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unstony stonily stoninessStony BrookStony Chutestony coralStony CreekStony Crossingstony-facedstonyheartedStony Stratfordfall on stony groundstony ironstony-ironStony Pointstonifystony-brokeHardstone

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English stony, stoni, stani, from Old English stāniġ, stǣniġ (stony, rocky), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (stony), equivalent to stone + -y. Cognate with stany, stienich, stenig, steinig, stenig.