flinty hearted
1flinty — (adj.) hard hearted, 1530s, from FLINT (Cf. flint) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Literal sense of resembling flint is from 1640s …
2flinty — adj 1. adamantine, impenetrable, unyielding, hard as flint, firm, durable; stony, rocky, granitic; callous, horny. 2. indurate, hardened, inured; unfeeling, unimpressi ble, stony hearted, cold hearted; cruel, unmerciful, merciless, pitiless, hard …
3hard-hearted — adj unfeeling, hard, cold, frigid, un merciful, pitiless, implacable; callous, marble hearted, fell, flinty, stony, indurated; aloof, distant, disdainful, stiff; insentient, impervious, indifferent, unsusceptible; untouched, unmoved, unstirred,… …
4jerk — 1. American to fail a pupil Tugging them out of the class: Not a single student was put up for elimination by the instructors in our school in the first class. The army had to step in and jerk them. (Deighton, 1993, writing about… …
5cold-blooded — adj 1. unemotional, dispassionate, spiritless, cold; insensitive, unfeeling, uncompassion ate, uncaring, heartless; unkind, pitiless, merciless, hard hearted, cold hearted, marble hearted, stony hearted; unsympathetic, unresponsive, impassive,… …
6pitiless — adj merciless, unmerciful, unpitying, unsparing, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unkind, impervious, insentient, inexorable; cold, frigid, heartless, soulless, passionless, cold hearted, hard hearted, marble hearted, iron hearted; callous, thickskinned …
7undemonstrative — adj 1. unresponsive, uncommunicative, unaffectionate, distant, aloof; unexcitable, unemotional, unmoved, unstirred, unperturbed, unsusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible; apathetic, phlegmatic, listless, languid; lukewarm, neutral,… …
8stony — adjective 1) a stony path Syn: rocky, pebbly, gravelly, shingly; rough, hard Ant: smooth 2) a stony stare Syn: unfriendly, hostile …
9marble — n 1. chalcedony, limestone, quartz; agate, Sl. aggie, Sl. glassy, shooter. adj 2. hard, polished, smooth, vitreous, glossy, shiny, lustrous. 3. marble hearted, cold hearted, hard hearted; cold, austere, harsh, flinty, steely; unsympathetic,… …
10stony — adj 1. rocky, rock strewn, rock ribbed, pebbly, Brit. shingly, gravelly, gritty, cobbled; rough, jagged, bumpy. 2. lithic, hard, adamantine, adamant, granite, marble, rock hard; petrified, ossified, hardened; craggy, flinty, impervious,… …
