stony

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Covered with or full of stones: a stony beach.
2. adj. Resembling stone, as in hardness.
3. adj. Hardhearted and unfeeling; unemotional.
4. adj. Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive: a stony expression.
5. adj. Emotionally numbing or paralyzing: a stony feeling of fear.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Containing stones; abounding in stone.
2. Made of stone; consisting of stone; rocky.
3. Hard like stone, but not made of stone; stone-like.
4. Specifically, in anatomy and zoology, very hard, like a stone; hard as a rock.
5. Sclerodermic or madreporarian, as corals.
6. Lithistidan, as sponges.
7. Especially thick and hard, as some opercula of shells. See sea-bean, 3.
8. Petrous or petrosal, as bone.
9. Otolithic, as concretions in the car. See ear-bone, ear-stone, otolith.
10. Turned to stone; petrified, as a fossil.
11. Pertaining to or characteristic of stone: as, a stony quality or consistency.
12. Rigid; fixed; hard, especially in a moral sense; hardened; obdurate.
13. Painfully hard and cold; chilling; frigid; freezing.
14. To stun.
15. To astonish; confound.
16. To be or become stunned or astounded.

Wiktionary

1. adj. As hard as stone.
2. adj. Containing or made up of stones.
3. adj. figuratively Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
4. adj. figuratively Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard.
2. adj. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
3. adj. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. hard as granite
2. adj. abounding in rocks or stones
3. adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings