Definitions for stony

stony ston·y

Spelling: [stoh-nee]
IPA: /ˈstoʊ ni/

Stony is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in stony (nosty).

Definitions for stony

adjective

  1. full of or abounding in stones or rock:
  2. pertaining to or characteristic of stone.
  3. resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness.
  4. unfeeling; merciless; obdurate:
  5. motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look:
  6. petrifying; stupefying:
  7. having a stone or stones, as fruit.
  8. Slang. stone-broke.

Origin of stony

before 1000; Middle English; Old English stānig. See stone, -y1

Examples for stony

His horrible pleading fell on stony ears, and he changed his tune.

To his further remonstrances she interposed a stony silence.

The stony silence of IRS is compelling thousands of us to hire tax counsel and to proceed at our own risk and expense.

Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name.

Sara Sonnack, a stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.

At this time, young Dunlap was introduced to the stony paths of playwriting.

The ground is stony, and scarce any thing but gravel, mixt with a little earth.

She recalled the time they had walked together its stony beaches–and when Lee had lost his keys among the rocks.

Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection.

But it was stony Mountain that was of most importance to the British.

Word Value for stony
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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