Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing or composed of flint.
- adj. Unyielding; stern: a flinty manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the nature of flint; abounding in flint, or having a flint-like quality: as, a flinty rock; a flinty fracture; flinty ground.
- Figuratively, hard as flint; obdurate; cruel; unmerciful: as, a flinty heart.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling or containing flint.
- adj. Showing a lack of emotion.
- adj. Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint
WordNet 3.0
- adj. containing flint
- adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
Etymologies
- flint + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He jerked his head at Helen as he passed the Cells office on his way out, his expression flinty; Helen scrambled to keep up as he strode away.”
“He used one of his favorite terms -- "flinty" -- to describe Mr. Simpson.”
“I have the tenacity of a Dagny Taggart," says Mr. Aglialoro, referring to the flinty heroine of "Atlas Shrugged.”
“Expression flinty, Carmine stared at an unrepentant Helen MacIntosh as she sat on the opposite side of the kitchen table he preferred to a desk, with its drawers, kneeholes, modesty panels and nice wood tops.”
“Roberts describes both men with evident admiration as gentlemen - Marshall is "steely", Brooke "flinty" - able to work with one another despite their differences.”
“Obama singled out Simpson, a longtime advocate of fiscal discipline, as being "flinty" or unyielding.”
“If you look in the dictionary, it says 'flinty' and then it's got Simpson's picture," the president said.”
“Bush and Truman share a kind of flinty self-reliance: just as Bush likes to call himself "the decider," Truman liked to say "The buck stops here.”
“The house white is kind of flinty and I think it goes with everything myself.”
“The outer surfaces of the outer sheets are prepared with a kind of flinty coating, which gives sharpness to the outline of the various coloured devices.”
Lists
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
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unyielding
refractory, unmanageable, ungovernable, obstinate, contumacious, stubborn, unyielding, unruly, perverse, refractoriness, inanimates, contrary and 12 more...
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Old-timey Gangster Nicknames
Real (ie. heard in a gangster flick) or verisimilitudinous.
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My List
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JesusIsLord's Words
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
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kalidas's Words
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
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Cold Comfort Farm
From the novel by Stella Gibbons
tyro, bustle, locust years, lambency, mere, berg, fen, bilious, cataclysm, flapdoodle, vulgar, serener and 98 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
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stpeter's Words
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theinfonaut's Words
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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