stony

1. 1.

   abounding in rocks or stones

   “rocky fields”

   “stony ground”

   “bouldery beaches”

   Synonymsrockyboulderybouldered

   Similarrough
2. 2.

   showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

   “his flinty gaze”

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

   Synonymsflintyflintgraniticobdurate

   Similarhardhearted
3. 3.

   hard as granite

   “a granitic fist”

   Synonymsgraniticgranitelikerocklike

   Similarhard

Other forms of stony

comparative or superlative

stonier

comparative or superlative

stoniest

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 stony

What does stony mean?

stony means "abounding in rocks or stones". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stony?

stony has 2 syllables: sto-ny. The stress falls on "sto". In IPA it is /ˈstoʊni/.

What is another word for stony?

Close synonyms include rocky, bouldery, bouldered, flinty, flint. 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 stony a common word?

stony 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.