FLINTY (flintier, flintiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: flintier    , flintiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flinty mean? 

• FLINTY (adjective)
  The adjective FLINTY has 2 senses:

1. containing flint

2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

  Familiarity information: FLINTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLINTY (adjective)

Comparative: flintier   
Superlative: flintiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing flint

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

Synonyms:

flint; flinty; granitic; obdurate; stony

Context example:

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

Similar:

hardhearted; heartless (lacking in feeling or pity or warmth)

 Context examples 

I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)