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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Containing or composed of flint.
  2. adj. Unyielding; stern: a flinty manner.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of the nature of flint; abounding in flint, or having a flint-like quality: as, a flinty rock; a flinty fracture; flinty ground.
  2. Figuratively, hard as flint; obdurate; cruel; unmerciful: as, a flinty heart.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling or containing flint.
  2. adj. Showing a lack of emotion.
  3. adj. Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. containing flint
  2. adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

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  • minerva I had written a great part of another long letter, to try to soften thy flinty heart in her favour...

    Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 18, 2007

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