| Main Entry: | stony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, icy in appearance, response |
Synonyms: |
adamant, blank, callous, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cruel, expressionless, firm, frigid, hard-boiled, hardened, heartless, hostile, indifferent, inexorable, inflexible, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, rough, tough, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unforgiving, unrelenting, unresponsive, unsympathetic |
Antonyms: |
friendly, smiling, soft, warm |
| Main Entry: | callous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, insensitive |
Synonyms: |
apathetic, blind to, careless, case-hardened, cold, cold-blooded, deaf to, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, impassive, impenitent, indifferent, indurated, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, inured, obdurate, soulless, spiritless, stiff, stony, stubborn, thick-skinned, torpid, tough, toughened, unaffected, unbending, uncaring, uncompassionate, unconcerned, unfeeling, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic |
| Notes: | callus is a hard patch of skin; callous is an adjective meaning 'indifferent to suffering' or 'hardened' |
Antonyms: |
compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sensitive, sympathetic, tender |
| Main Entry: | chill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfriendly, aloof |
Synonyms: |
cool, depressing, discouraging, dismal, dispiriting, distant, emotionless, formal, frigid, glacial, hateful, hostile, icy, indifferent, reserved, solitary, standoffish, stony, uncompanionable, unemotional, ungenial, unhappy, unresponsive, unwelcoming, wintry, withdrawn |
Antonyms: |
friendly, responsive, sympathetic, warm |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aloof, unresponsive |
Synonyms: |
apathetic, cold-blooded, cool, dead, distant, emotionless, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, impersonal, imperturbable, indifferent, inhibited, inhospitable, joyless, lukewarm, matter-of-fact, passionless, phlegmatic, reserved, reticent, spiritless, standoffish, stony, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unmoved, unresponsive, unsympathetic |
Antonyms: |
animated, ardent, eager, enthusiastic, excited, fervid, friendly, interested, sympathetic, warm, zealous |
| Main Entry: | craggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jagged |
Synonyms: |
asperous, broken, cragged, harsh, precipitous, rock-bound, rocky, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggy, stony, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth |
Antonyms: |
flat, smooth |
| Main Entry: | deadpan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressionless |
Synonyms: |
blank, impassive, nobody home, poker-faced, serious, stony, straight-faced, unreadable, vacant, wooden |
| Main Entry: | destitute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | down and out; wanting |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke, deficient, depleted, deprived of, devoid of, dirt poor, divested, drained, empty, exhausted, flat broke, flat*, impecunious, impoverished, in need of, indigent, insolvent, lacking, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the breadline, on the rocks, penniless, penurious, pinched, played out, poor, poverty-stricken, stony, strapped, stripped, totaled, wiped out, without |
Antonyms: |
lucky, prosperous, rich, secure, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | flinty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stern |
Synonyms: |
cruel, firm, hard, inflexible, rigid, steely, stony, unsympathetic, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rocklike |
Synonyms: |
adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, consolidated, dense, firm, hardened, impenetrable, indurate, indurated, inflexible, iron, packed, rigid, rocky, set, solid, stiff, stony, strong, thick, tough, unyielding |
Antonyms: |
flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding |
| Main Entry: | hardhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, cruel |
Synonyms: |
brutish, callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, hard, hard-boiled, heartless, indifferent, inhuman, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, stony, uncaring, uncompassionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic |
Antonyms: |
compassionate, kind, nice, softhearted, warm |