Stony

Definition: Stony

Stony

Adjective

1. Abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches".

2. Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart".

3. Hard as granite; "a granitic fist".

Date "stony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Stony \Ston"y\, adjective. [Comparative Stonier; superlative Stoniest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Stony

Synonyms: bouldered (adj), bouldery (adj), flinty (adj), granitelike (adj), granitic (adj), obdurate (adj), rocklike (adj), rocky (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hardness	Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	No, in kicking your stony ass. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)
Lyrics	Along this stony pass (Stuck In A Moment; performing artist: U2) Shoots up through the stony ground (Beautiful Day; performing artist: U2)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Illustrated Catalogue of the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at Stony Brook. (reference) Stony Man Doctrine (Don Pendleton's MacK Bolan, the Executioner/Lfp7174-7) (reference) Stony Man: State of Aggression (reference) Stony Point: A Triangle Club Adventure (reference) Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Corals on the reef vary from large stony heads to whispy branches. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Stony ground. Credit: Library of Congress.
	View at Stony Brook / A.S. Greene. Credit: Library of Congress.		Wayside scene, Stony Creek, Va.] / Geo. Barker, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Lower entrance, Stony Brook Glen, Dansville, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.		Big falls, Stony Brook Glen, Dansville, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Cotton patch in stony soil which is characteristic of a good part of the Crabtree Creek recreational demonstration area near Raleigh, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.		Cross section of land showing a very thin layer of soil over a hard stony surface. Brown County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Stony Brook Gardens, Stratford, Connecticut. Court, view I. Credit: Library of Congress.		Stony Brook, Long Island. Barber sign. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It has the same stony shore, and its waters are of the same hue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Stony" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.53% of the time. "Stony" is used about 377 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	87.53%	330	15,812
Noun (proper)	12.47%	47	49,740
Total	100.00%	377	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "stony".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Trachonitis	N/A	Biblical	Stony
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stony": Stony Bottom ♦ stony broke ♦ Stony Brook ♦ stony clod of earth ♦ stony coral ♦ Stony Creek ♦ stony field ♦ stony ground ♦ stony heart ♦ stony hearted ♦ stony meteorite ♦ Stony Point ♦ Stony Prairie ♦ Stony River ♦ stony stare ♦ Suny Stony Brook. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "stony": stony-broke, stony-eyed, stony-faced, stony-hearted, stony-iron, stony-irons, stony-seeded, stony-visaged.
	Ending with "stony": normally-stony.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "stony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me gurë, i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, winterly, wintry), gurore (quarry, stone pit, stone-quarry), gurishte (pebbly). (various references)

Arabic		‏مغطى بالحصى (pebbly), ‏قاسي (austere, drastic, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, harsh, rough, rugged, severe, sharp, slashing, stern, strait, strict, stringent, tough, unyielding), ‏حجري (stone), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏صخري (aguish, rocky), ‏صاعق (astounding, staggering, terrible), ‏خلو من التعبير (unmeant, vacant). (various references)

Bulgarian		студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly, wintry), коравосърдечен (callous, flinthearted, hardhearted, inhumane, obdurate, stony hearted, unfeeling, unforgiving, unpitying, unsympathetic), каменлив, каменист (rocky, rugged), безразличен (colorless, colourless, disinterested, frigid, incurious, indifferent, insensible, lukewarm, neutral, poppied, tepid, unimpressed, uninterested, unmoved, untouched), безизразен (toneless, unmeaning, vacuous). (various references)

Chinese		石狀 , 石, 磈 (rocky). (various references)

Czech		tvrdý (big, brazen, callous, crackdown, cruel, deep, hard, harsh, heavy, relentless, rigorous, sound, steely, stiff, stone-dead, tough, unkind), ledový (arctic, gelid, glacial, ice cold, iced, icy, stone cold, winterly, wintry), kamenný (stone), kamenitý (rocky), bezcitný (cold-hearted, cruel, hard-hearted, heartless, insusceptible, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling, unkind). (various references)

Danish		stenfyldt, stenet (stoned, to crash, wasted, wiped out, wrecked). (various references)

Dutch		stenig (metalled, stone), steenachtig. (various references)

Farsi		پرسنک , سنگلاخ (Rocky). (various references)

Finnish		kivinen (stone), kivenkova (hard as stone). (various references)

French		pierreux (stone). (various references)

German		steinig (gravelly, rocky, shingly, stonily). (various references)

Greek		σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, crusty, flinty, hard, scirrhous, steely, stiff, stubbed, stubbly, tough, truculent), πέτρινοσ (flinty, stone), πετρώδησ (rocky, rugged), πετρώδης (rocky), λιθώδησ, λίθινοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מסולע (rocky), קשוח (callous, cruel, harsh, impenitent, inexorable, stern, tough), אבני, אבנוני, טרשי (rocky), סלעי (adamant, rocky, rugged). (various references)

Hungarian		köves (gritty, petrous, pitched, rocky), jéghideg (as cold as a stone, cold as ice, ice cold, stone cold). (various references)

Indonesian		berbatu. (various references)

Italian		sassoso (pebbly, rocky). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		石山 (a stony mountain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いしやま (a stony mountain). (various references)

Manx		clagh-chreoi (stone hard), claghagh (flinty). (various references)

Pig Latin		onystay.(various references)

Portuguese		pedregoso (flinty, gritty, pebbly, rocky, shingly). (various references)

Romanian		rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, wintery, wintry), pietros (flinty, rocky, rough), fãcut din piatrã, de piatrã, bolovãnos (rough). (various references)

Russian		твердый (adamant, cast iron, coriaceous, deep-seated, fast, firm, gritty, hard, hard and fast, resolute, resolved, rigid, rocky, set, solid, steadfast, stern, stiff, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unyielding), каменный (stone), каменистый (petrous, rocky). (various references)

Scottish		sgrìodan (a stony ravine on a mountain side, stony ravine on mountain side), faolainn (a stony beach: "the beach"). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stolid, tearless, unfeeling, unsusceptible), kamen (calculus, rock, stone). (various references)

Spanish		pedregoso. (various references)

Swedish		stenig (metalled, pebbly, stone). (various references)

Turkish		soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), taştan yapılmış, taşlı (gemmiferous, jeering, rocky), taş kalpli (hard-hearted, insensitive, obdurate, stony hearted), taş gibi (as sound as bell, copper-bottomed, granitic, like stone, rocky, strapping), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved). (various references)

Turkmen		daюly (rocky). (various references)

Ukrainian		кам'янистий (lapidose, petrous), кам'яний (stone), безжалісний (cold blooded, compassless, devoid of pity, dispiteous, grim, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô tình; chai đá (stonily, stony-hearted), phủ đá, nhiều đá cứng như đá chằm chằm; lạnh lùng, không một xu dính túi (stone-broke, stony-broke, upper), đầy đá. (various references)

Welsh		caregog. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lapidea, lapideae, lapideas, lapidei, lapideis, lapideos, lapideum, saxosam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 4, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Allo de epesen epi to petrwdeV opou ouk eicen ghn pollhn kai euqewV exaneteilen dia to mh ecein baqoV ghV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Aliud vero cecidit super petrosa ubi non habuit terram multam et statim exortum est quoniam non habebat altitudinem terrae
Old English	990	West Saxon	Sum feoll ofer stanscylygean. þær hitnæfde mycele eorðan. & sone up-eode. & for þan hit næfde eorðe þicdnysse.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Othere felde doun on stony places, where it had not myche erthe; and anoon it spronge vp, for it had not depnesse of erthe.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Some fell on stony grounde where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp because it had not deepth of erth:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 4, Verse 5
Cebuano	Ug may ubang mga binhi nga diha mahulog sa kabatoan, diin dili daghan ang yuta, ug kini migitib dayon sanglit kini wala may giladmon diha sa yuta;
Croatian	Neko opet pade na kamenito tlo gdje nemaše dosta zemlje. Odmah izniknu jer nemaše duboke zemlje.
Danish	Og noget faldt på Stengrund, hvor det ikke havde megen Jord; og det voksede straks op, fordi det ikke havde dyb Jord.
Dutch	En het andere viel op het steenachtige, waar het niet veel aarde had; en het ging terstond op, omdat het geen diepte van aarde had.
Finnish	Ja osa putosi kallioperälle, jossa sillä ei ollut paljon maata, ja se nousi kohta oraalle, kun sillä ei ollut syvää maata.
Gaelic	Agus thuit cuid eile air talamh creagach, far nach robh moran uire aige: `S ghrad-dh` fhas e, chionn nach robh doimhneachd fuinn aige:
German	Etliches fiel in das Steinige, wo es nicht viel Erde hatte; und ging bald auf, darum daß es nicht tiefe Erde hatte.
Hungarian	Némely pedig a köves helyre esék, a hol nem sok földje vala, és hamar kikele, mivel nem vala mélyen a földben.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ada juga yang jatuh di tempat berbatu-batu yang tanahnya sedikit. Benih-benih itu segera tumbuh karena kurang tanah,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Ada separuh jatuh di tempat yang berbatu-batu, yang tiada banyak tanahnya, maka dengan segera benih itu tumbuh, sebab tanahnya tiada dalam.
Maori	Ko etahi i ngahoro ki te wahi kamaka, ki te wahi kihai i nui te oneone; a pihi tonu ake, kahore hoki i hohonu te oneone.
Norwegian	Og noget falt på stengrunn, hvor det ikke hadde meget jord; og det kom snart op, fordi det ikke hadde dyp jord,
Portuguese	Outra caiu no solo pedregoso, onde não havia muita terra: e logo nasceu, porque não tinha terra profunda;
Rumanian	O altq parte a cqzut pe un loc stkncos, unde n`avea mult pqmknt: a rqsqrit kndatq, pentrucq n`a dat de un pqmknt adknc;
Shuar	Chikichcha kaya írunmanum iniararmai, nunka ishichik ámanum. Tura nunka ishichik asamtai Wárik tsapainiarmai.
Swahili	Nyingine zilianguka penye mawe pasipokuwa na udongo mwingi. Mbegu hizo ziliota mara kwa kuwa udongo haukuwa na kina.
Swedish	Och somt föll på stengrund, där det icke hade mycket jord, och det kom strax upp, eftersom det icke hade djup jord;
Uma	Ria wo'o to monawu' hi tana' to watua, hangkedi' -wadi tana' -na. Hinawu' -na toe sohi' lia tuwu', apa' moreni' tana' -na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stony": stonyhearted. (additional references)
	Words ending with "stony": astony. (additional references)
	Words containing "stony": astonying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atony, Estoy, itony, Ostomy, shony, sonie, sony, stanly, Steny, stiny, stody, stoly, ston, stoney, stong, stonk, stooky, stoty, stovy, stown, stowny, stowy, stungy, stunty, tonyu, toony. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stony" (pronounced stō"nē)
5	s t ō" n ē	Stoney.
4	-t ō" n ē	rigatoni, Toney, Tony.
3	-ō" n ē	abalone, baloney, Bologna, boney, bony, Coney, crony, macaroni, mony, negroni, pepperoni, phoney, phony, pony.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "n-o-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: nosy, snot, tons, tony, toys.
	-2 letters: nos, not, ons, son, sot, soy, sty, syn, ton, toy, yon.
	-3 letters: no, on, os, oy, so, to, yo.
	Words containing the letters "n-o-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: astony, cytons, snooty, snotty, snouty, stoney, toyons.
	+2 letters: aroynts, etymons, honesty, phytons, pythons, rhytons, stenoky, stonily, syntony, tycoons, tylosin, typhons.
	+3 letters: anolytes, antonyms, bayonets, cytosine, drystone, dystonia, dystonic, eyestone, honestly, keynotes, keystone, klystron, kryptons, lanosity, metonyms, neotypes, nitrosyl, nodosity, nonstory, nonstyle, oxytones, postsync, snootily, snottily, sonority, sovranty, stonefly, storying, stramony, strongly, strongyl, stroying, symbiont, synoptic, syntonic, tachyons, tardyons, thionyls, thymosin, tonishly, toponyms, tourneys, tylosins, typhoons, tyrosine, venosity, vinosity, youngest, youthens.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
stony brook ny	521	stony creek ny	14
university at stony brook	289	mall point stony	14
stony brook	228	creek metro park stony	14
suny stony brook	219	brook loews stony	14
alta canada edmonton plain stony	172	stony point nc	14
stony point ny	149	hill inn stony	13
brook hospital stony	67	stony brook new york	13
brook hospital stony university	54	stony creek virginia	11
state university of new york stony brook	41	brook state stony university	11
stony point	39	plain reporter stony	11
stony plain	38	plain stony town	11
stony creek	27	hotel stony brook	11
stony lake	26	stony ridge oh	11
stony brook college	24	stony brook apartment	10
stony plain alberta	24	brook new stony university york	10
the stony brook school	22	stony point high school	10
brook park state stony	20	creek inn stony	9
stony	18	stony creek golf course	9
fashion park point stony	17	brook park stony	9
creek metropark stony	16	brook stony suny university	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Stony wave" by Henrik Tibbing Commentary: "Wave on stony shore, Nice, France."	"Path to the gate" by Dustin Byerley Commentary: "Lush bushes of flowers guide you along the stony path, under the bridge and to the gate. Shot on a Canon 10D 6.3MP digital camera."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Stony

Definition: Stony

Stony

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Rock (geology)

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