Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

STONE-HEARTED

Definition: STONE-HEARTED

STONE-HEARTED

Adjective

1. Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STONE-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)


Usage Frequency: STONE-HEARTED

"STONE-HEARTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STONE-HEARTED" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Rhyming with "STONE-HEARTED"

Words rhyming with "STONE-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Stone"-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: STONE-HEARTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: threatened.

-3 letters: adherents, attendees, attenders, dethrones, detonates, edentates, entreated, estreated, headnotes, headstone, heartened, hoarsened, neatherds, northeast, resonated, shattered, shortened, tenderest, threatens, threnodes.

-4 letters: adherent, aesthete, attendee, attender, attorned, detentes, detester, dethrone, detonate, earstone, earthset, edentate, endorsee, endostea, entreats, haeredes, hardnose, hastened, hastener, headnote, headrest, heartens, honester, nattered, neatherd, ratteens, rattened, reasoned, reheated, renested.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-n-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: softheartedness.

 

+4 letters: stoutheartedness.

 

+5 letters: softheartednesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: STONE-HEARTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 54 4F 4E 45 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01000101 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#45 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 004F 004E 0045 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53544948391542393552543938

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.