stony 的定义
ston·i·er, ston·i·est.
- full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- pertaining to or characteristic of stone.
- resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness.
- unfeeling; merciless; obdurate: a stony heart.
- motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look: a hard, stony stare.
- petrifying; stupefying: stony fear.
- having a stone or stones, as fruit.
- Slang. stone-broke.
stony 近义词
hard, icy in appearance, response
更多stony例句
- In fact, of all underwater environments, the vertical, stony walls that mark the deep-water edges of coral reefs are among the most sublime, colorful, and ancient of Earth’s biologically produced habitats.
- Plankton and organic-rich sediments tumbled down the long stony walls of coral reefs.
- Of course it's a big world out there, and this stony pairing had indeed been noticed before, to amusing effect.
- These meteorites are so commonplace that we call them “ordinary” chondrites, or stony meteorites.
- Over several days, this wine danced from bright plum flavors to stony minerality, and back again to fruit, then earth, until the flavors melded into something more complex.
- Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.
- It exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.
- Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name.
- Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.
- Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection.
- Why didn't he send a trooper to report at once instead of wasting time in going to Stony Crossing?
- It took us all of the next day to make the trip to Stony Crossing and back by way of the place where Rutter was buried.
- It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.
- The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.
- Why did he quit the fruitful banks of the Euphrates for a spot so remote, so barren, and so stony as Sichem?