Stony Definition

stōnē
stonier, stoniest
adjective
stonier, stoniest
Covered with or having many stones.
Webster's New World
Of or like stone.
Webster's New World
Unfeeling or hardhearted; unemotional or unsympathetic.
American Heritage
Petrifying.
Webster's New World
Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive.
A stony expression.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Stony

Adjective

Base Form:
stony
Comparative:
stonier
Superlative:
stoniest

Origin of Stony

  • From Middle English stoni, stani, from Old English stāniÄ¡, stÇ£niÄ¡ (“stony, rocky"), from Proto-Germanic *stainagaz (“stony"), equivalent to stone +"Ž -y. Cognate with Scots stany (“stony"), West Frisian stienich (“stony"), Dutch stenig (“stony, metalled"), German steinig (“stony, rocky, gravelly"), Swedish stenig (“stony, rocky, pebbly").

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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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