flint

1. 1.

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

   Broadersilica

   Narrowergunflintfirestoneflintstone
2. 2.

   a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

   SynonymsFlint River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofGeorgia
3. 3.

   a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

   Broadercity

   Part ofMichigan

1. 1.

   showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

   “his flinty gaze”

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

   Synonymsflintygraniticobduratestony

   Similarhardhearted

Other forms of flint

plural

flints·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flint

What does flint mean?

flint means "a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flint?

flint has 1 syllable: flint. In IPA it is /ˈflɪnt/.

What is another word for flint?

Close synonyms include Flint River, flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flint a common word?

flint is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.