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FLINTY (flintier, flintiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: flintier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, flintiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flinty mean? 

FLINTY (adjective)
  The adjective FLINTY has 2 senses:

1. containing flintplay

2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelingsplay

  Familiarity information: FLINTY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLINTY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: flintier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: flintiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing flint

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

flint (a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony)

Derivation:

flint (a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

Synonyms:

flint; flinty; granitic; obdurate; stony

Context example:

the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart

Similar:

hardhearted; heartless (lacking in feeling or pity or warmth)


 Context examples 


I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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