Flinty
//ˈflɪnti// adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
"It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance."
- 2 Siliceous (including basanite).
"flinty rock"
- 3 Showing a lack of emotion. figuratively
"Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending."
- 4 Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Adjective
- 1 showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings wordnet
- 2 containing flint wordnet
Example
More examples"It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance."
Etymology
From flint + -y.
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