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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLINT'Y, a.
1. Consisting of flint; as a flinty rock.
2. Like flint; very hard, not impressible; as a flinty heart.
3. Cruel; unmerciful; inexorable.
4. Full of flint stones, as flinty ground.
Flinty-slate, a mineral of two kinds, the common and the Lydian stone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: containing flint
2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (flintier; -est) Date: 1536 1. resembling flint; especially stern, unyielding <flinty determination> 2. composed of or covered with flint • flintily adverb • flintiness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flinty Flint"y, a. [Compar. Flintier; superl. Flintiest.] Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rock, or Flinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or someone's character or expression as flinty, you mean they are harsh and show no emotion. ...her flinty stare. ...a man of flinty determination. = stony ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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