flinty
flinty
Definition
flinty (flin′tē)
adjective flint′i·er, flint′i·est
- made of or containing flint
- like flint; extremely hard and firm; inflexible a flinty heart
flint′i·ly adverb
flint′i·ness noun
flinty
Synonyms
flinty
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- soil: And when cleared of vegetation, some soil types, such as chalky or flinty soils, can also have a direct visual impact.
- stone: A55 also bad for flinty stones which can puncture radiators very easily.
- wine: Near Auxerre, Chablis is famed for its flinty, dry white wine.
- heart: Oh that I may believe this and feel the power of it upon my flinty heart!
- loam: The soil is flinty loam and the subsoil clay with flints, and the chief crops are wheat and beans.
- ledge: He hated the hard picking and prying and blasting into the flinty ledges, but the fever drove him on.
Modifying Another Word
- locally: Deep, well-drained fine loamy and sandy soils, locally flinty, over glaciofluvial drift.
Browse dictionary entries near flinty
- Flintshire
- flintlock
- flint glass
- flint corn
- flint
- fling
- flinders
- flinch
- flimsy
- flimflam
