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If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
Horst Koehler

Meaning of "stony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STONY

stony  [ˈstəʊnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stony is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

stony

Stony

Þorsteinn Sindri Baldvinsson, better known by his stage name Stony, is an independent rapper, hip-hop artist, singer, drummer, producer and actor. Well known for starring in Pepsi's new Now Is What You Make It commercial campaign.

Definition of stony in the English dictionary

The first definition of stony in the dictionary is of or resembling stone. Other definition of stony is abounding in stone or stones. Stony is also unfeeling, heartless, or obdurate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STONY


abalone
ˌæbəˈləʊnɪ
bony
ˈbəʊnɪ
brimstony
ˈbrɪmˌstəʊnɪ
canzone
kænˈzəʊnɪ
canzoni
kænˈzəʊnɪ
coney
ˈkəʊnɪ
Dione
daɪˈəʊnɪ
leone
liːˈəʊnɪ
macaroni
ˌmækəˈrəʊnɪ
Marconi
mɑːˈkəʊnɪ
mascarpone
ˌmæskəˈpəʊnɪ
Moroni
məˈrəʊnɪ
noni
ˈnəʊnɪ
panettone
pænəˈtəʊnɪ
phony
ˈfəʊnɪ
pony
ˈpəʊnɪ
rigatoni
ˌrɪɡəˈtəʊnɪ
Stoney
ˈstəʊnɪ
tony
ˈtəʊnɪ
tortoni
tɔːˈtəʊnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STONY

stonewashed
stonework
stoneworker
stonewort
Stoney
stonier
stoniest
stonily
stoniness
stonk
stonker
stonkered
stonking
stony coral
stony meteorite
Stony Tunguska
stony-broke
stony-faced
stony-hearted
stonyheartedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE STONY

Antony
atony
betony
cottony
gluttony
homotony
Mark Antony
monotony
muttony
syntony
tantony
wood betony

Synonyms and antonyms of stony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STONY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stony» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of stony

Translation of «stony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STONY

Find out the translation of stony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多石的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pedregoso
570 millions of speakers

English

stony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पथरीले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحجرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

галечный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pedregoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাঁকুরে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pierreux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Batu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

steinig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

石だらけの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌이 많은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lạnh lùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दगडाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taşlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pietroso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kamienista
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гальковий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu pietriș
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πετρώδες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klipperige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stenig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

steinet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STONY»

The term «stony» is very widely used and occupies the 22.079 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STONY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stony

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4 QUOTES WITH «STONY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stony.
1
Theodore Dreiser
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
2
Garrison Keillor
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
3
Horst Koehler
If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
4
Alice Oswald
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONY»

Discover the use of stony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Raising Stony Mayhall
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Daryl Gregory, 2011
2
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change.
Cain Hope Felder, 1991
3
The Stony Dance: Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely's Petersburg
In finding an approach to these enriching difficulties, this book at long last shows readers a welcoming way into Bely's thought, and his masterwork, and their place in the complex world of early twentieth-century literature.
Timothy Langen, 2005
4
Toby at Stony Bay
After a big storm a boat has washed up on the beach at Stony bay ita s up to Toby and BJ to rescue it.
Annette Smith, 1998
5
Stony Man Doctrine
Extensive terrorist activity across the United States forces Mack Bolan, the Able Team, and Phoenix Force to plan an all out counterattack
Don Pendleton, 1983
6
Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social ...
How do we account for the strange fourteen-chaptered form of the book of Zechariah? What is the social and historical matrix from which this book derives?
Byron G. Curtis, 2006
7
'Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the ...
This book is the result of an ethnographic study on the impact of Black cultural diversity on social action.
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston, 2005
8
Stony Brook
The book also shows many familiar buildings in much earlier but still recognizable form, revisits aspects of village life prior to World War II, and documents the transformations of 1940 to 1946.
‎2003
9
Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
The story of a woman's struggle to come to terms with the death of her estranged daughter, it explores themes that Purdy has long made his own: the mysterious connections between creativity and self-destruction; the human alchemy that binds ...
James Purdy, 1999
10
Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River ...
The Late Ordovician carbonate deposits now preserved in the Williston Basin contain a rich and diverse benthic shelly fauna that lived in the ancient equatorial epicontinental seas just before the Late Ordovician mass extinction event, and ...
Jisuo Jin, Ren-Bin Zhan, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stony is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NC State tops Stony Brook 3-0 in NCAA tourney opener
Fort Worth, Texas — NC State tops Stony Brook 3-0 in NCAA baseball regional opener. The Pack will play the winner of TCU-Sacred Heart Saturday at 8 p.m.. «WRALSportsFan.com, May 15»
2
Chimps Get Their Day in Court in NY 'Personhood' Hearing
In a Manhattan courthouse, about 50 people listened while lawyers from New York's attorney general's office, representing Stony Brook University, and the ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
3
Three male teens killed in car crash at Stony Creek Metropark
Three teenagers were killed and two injured Friday evening when their speeding Jaguar struck a bridge guardrail and rolled into a river at Stony Creek ... «The Macomb Daily, May 15»
4
Surveillance video shows attack that killed Stony Stanley Bushie
WINNIPEG—Stony Stanley Bushie was thrown to the ground by a man who then beat him with an object before dragging his limp body to the back corner of a ... «APTN National News, Apr 15»
5
Kenny Hetrick's Stony Ridge farm owner fights for his seized animals
In total, six tigers, a bear, a lion, a cougar, a black leopard and a liger (part lion, part tiger) were taken from Kenny Hetrick's Stony Ridge farm after it was found he ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
6
Judge Orders Stony Brook University to Defend Its Custody of 2 …
The order, by Justice Barbara Jaffe of New York State Supreme Court, directed officials at Stony Brook University to show cause for holding the two chimps, at a ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
7
Stony Brook ousted in heartbreaking fashion
Seconds away from its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, Stony Brook suffered its most devastating defeat in school history, as Peter Hooley's 3-pointer ... «New York Post, Mar 15»
8
Stony Brook knocks off Vermont in league semifinals
As the University of Vermont men's basketball team built a double-digit lead, flinging in shot after shot during a record-setting first half, Stony Brook maintained ... «BurlingtonFreePress.com, Mar 15»
9
State fighting return of exotic animals
STONY RIDGE, Ohio -- The Ohio Department of Agriculture said today it is opposing a court order to return the 11 large exotic animals they seized from Tiger ... «Toledo Blade, Jan 15»
10
Albany again shows Stony Brook why it's league champ
It didn't matter that Stony Brook was playing in sparkling new IFCU Arena in front of a home crowd of 3,434 Monday night. It didn't matter that Albany was without ... «Newsday, Jan 15»

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