Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Made of steel.
- adj. Resembling steel, as in color or hardness: steely eyes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of steel; made of steel.
- Resembling steel in some of its essential properties; hard; firm; stubborn.
- Resembling steel in color, metallic luster, or general appearance; having more or less imperfectly the qualities or composition of steel: as, steely iron.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Made of steel; consisting of steel.
- adj. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling steel in hardness
- adj. resembling steel as in hardness
Examples
“Hardly had Jawamard made an end of his verses when there came out upon him from among the trees a horseman of terrible mien covered and clad in steely sheen, who cried out to him, saying,”
“Joseph Small, pilot of the Bronco OV 10 plane that crashed as it returned from a mission, watched in steely silence.”
“It is hard to imagine four more successful, intelligent, and tough - or to use the press description, 'steely' - women than Hillary Clinton, Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards, and Silda Spitzer.”
“It is hard to imagine four more successful, intelligent, and tough - or to use the press description, 'steely' - women than Hillary Clinton, Jenny Sanford,”
“al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in Yemen, Mr Obama said, his jaw clenched in an expression of steely resolve that was familiar from the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's demise at the start of May.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Katie set her jaw, and her expression grew steely.”
“Want to come around? "said Skippy, with what is commonly described as a steely look.”
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
“Comedic idioms and cultural mores aside, actor Christian Tramitz has the kind of steely look you need for a role like this and I damn well want to see how it all comes together.”
“With opinion polls showing wide popular support for a public option, this is the time for President Obama to set aside his deep-seated instinct for compromise and to show the kind of steely resolve President Roosevelt displayed in defeating the Clark amendment.”
Jerome Karabel: Obama, FDR, and the Politics of Health Care Reform
“As a matter of fact, he had just met with the "steely" Condi the week before.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘steely’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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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...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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Metallics
Words that relate to or describe metals.
malleable, ductile, shiny, steely, brassy, dull, golden, precious, smelt, smith, tensile, clink and 39 more...
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steel
a reflection on :
Indo-European root stāk- to stand, place
stay, steel, style, temper, celesta, elinvar, vanadium steel, koftgari, mild steel, stale, falchion, eutectoid steel and 46 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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zumchen's Words
frolic, fornicate, steely, outflank, unwonted, serenity, demure, insatiable, quench, unparalleled, germane, rote and 35 more...
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Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
New words that I have come across while reading this book.
steely, jowly, obtuse, eviscerated, milieu, wharf, paternalism, sullen, tenuous, inveigled, toting, deftly and 24 more...
Tweets
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Noelle Knight "'I am as serious as the grave,' Bill said, and he sounded so steely, I made a major effort to change my attitude. -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011