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PRONUNCIATION OF STONY-HEARTED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STONY-HEARTED

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

WHAT DOES STONY-HEARTED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stony-hearted in the English dictionary

The definition of stony-hearted in the dictionary is unfeeling; hardhearted.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STONY-HEARTED

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE STONY-HEARTED

black-hearted
brokenhearted
cold-hearted
converted
departed
downhearted
faint-hearted
good-hearted
half-hearted
kind-hearted
light-hearted
lion-hearted
not for the faint-hearted
open-hearted
parted
pure-hearted
softhearted
tenderhearted
uncharted
warm-hearted
wholehearted

Synonyms and antonyms of stony-hearted in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stony-hearted» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STONY-HEARTED

Find out the translation of stony-hearted to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stony-hearted 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-hearted» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

铁石心肠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corazón de piedra
570 millions of speakers

English

stony-hearted
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पथरीले दिल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحجرية القلب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каменным сердцем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de coração petrificado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাষাণহৃদয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à cœur de pierre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stony-hearted
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

steinigen herzig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

石心
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌 마음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stony-hearted
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đá - hearted
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல் மனம் படைத்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दगडासारखा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taş kalpli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

di pietra di cuore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kamienne serce
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кам´яним серцем
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de piatră cu inima
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πετρώδες καρδιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klipperige humor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stenig hjärtat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

steinete - hearted
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stony-hearted

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STONY-HEARTED»

The term «stony-hearted» is used very little and occupies the 170.541 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STONY-HEARTED» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONY-HEARTED»

Discover the use of stony-hearted in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stony-hearted and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Journey's End: Removing Biblical Barriers Between Women and ...
STONY-HEARTED. MEN. Adam's two reactions, rejection and scapegoating, are typical behaviors unsanctified men use toward women. Such men typically view women as different from themselves in negative ways: less rational, less ...
Kathryn J. Riss Thm, Kathryn Riss, 2003
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The Dublin Review
The effect which these sentences must produce upon readers of Irish olood. whether in Europe or America, cannot fail to be that the English Govcrr ment has been deliberately and. without remorse cruel and stony-hearted towards Ireland, and ...
‎1871
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The Dublin Review
The effect which these sentences must produce upon readers of Irish blood, whether in Europe or America, cannot fail to be that the English Government has been deliberately and without remorse cruel and stony-hearted towards Ireland, and ...
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, 1871
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... remote, indifferent, reserved, withdrawn, uncommunicative, unresponsive, unfeeling, unemotional, dispassionate, passionless, wooden, impersonal, formal, stiff, austere; cold-blooded, cold-hearted, stony- hearted; informal stand-offish, offish ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
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Volap?k: A Monthly Journal of the World Language
The other learned to say “Obs ki] j'apels stonakerik" (We three stony-hearted rascals.) Believing that these were the ordinary salutations of polite society and ignorant of the real meaning, they went their way rejoicing in the knowledge of what ...
Charles Currier Beale
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Samlee's Daughter: A Novel
London- that 'stony hearted step-mother' to men of talent- has been like an Indian , or village-type, mother to me. But, only illiterate London- the Fleet river that runs beneath an apotheosised and Newer Grub street's monumental, York, paving ...
Vivek Iyer, 2007
7
Agnes Grey By Anne Bronte - With Illustrations, Summary and ...
rough,. stony-hearted. master. But how could I help it? I could not make the dog hate me by cruel treatment, and she would not propitiate him by kindness. However, while I thus sat, working away with my pencil, Mrs. Murray came, half- sailing, ...
Anne Bronte
8
Sovereignty of God
Is it because some are too stony-hearted to be won? No; because of the most stony-hearted people of all it is written, that God will yet "take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh" (Ezek. 11 :19,). Then is it because ...
Arthur W. Pink, 2008
9
The Essential Tagore
Why is God forever stony-hearted? Why does he bind on all sides with Chains? Break heart, break all chains, Devote yourself this day to your own desires. Flinging wave after wave Keep striking blow after blow. When the heart is on fire and ...
Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty, 2011
10
Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... from the bus stand Stony-hearted: Hard hearted * The stony-hearted father showed no mercy when his daughter returned home late in the rain Stool of repentance: A place in church where delinquents especially fornicators were exposed * I ...
Shori, A K, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STONY-HEARTED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stony-hearted is used in the context of the following news items.
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Taylor Swift Gives $50000 To Fan Battling Cancer
... is one of the most genuine and kind-hearted people in the music industry, this latest story ought to melt your stony-hearted prejudice in relation to the pop star. «image.ie, Jul 15»
2
Giant goldfish: Canadians urged not to flush pets down loo
The bizarre plea to stony-hearted pet owners has been issued in the province of Alberta, where environmental officers say the fish are multiplying at an alarming ... «TNT Magazine, Jun 15»
3
Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith extends to 5 September …
... choreography and the strength of the young cast: "a triumphant return for the stage version" (Telegraph); "you'd have to be stony-hearted not to appreciate this ... «London Theatre Guide - Online, May 15»
4
Who cares more about poverty, the Left or the Right?
The Right are all stony-hearted old-Etonian plutocrats who enjoy grinding the faces of the poor, and the Left are bleeding-heart drippy liberals who want to take ... «ChristianToday, Apr 15»
5
'Interstellar' Made Matthew McConaughey Cry Multiple Times, Sooo …
... going to be a heavy one, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the type of film to move even the most stony-hearted people to tears. The trailer alone indicates that: ... «Bustle, Nov 14»
6
Mikhail Lermontov Was My Relative
I can't help wondering what happened to the children the stony-hearted man abandoned when he set off for Russia. Were they taken into care, perhaps, after ... «The Moscow Times, Oct 14»
7
Pope braced for marriage clash as world's bishops meet
He also repeated his concerns that unwed mothers and their children are not finding the compassion they deserve from a stony-hearted Church. A group of ... «ucanews, Oct 14»
8
Richard Bean doesn't believe in humans - just weasels, snakes, rats …
The central character, Paige Britain, is a gorgeous, stony-hearted red-top news psycho determined to grab whatever she can of money and power while knifing ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 14»
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Long Lost Family, ITV, review: 'absorbing'
Within precisely four minutes, even this cynical, stony-hearted critic saw exactly what it was doing right, because I found myself blinking back tears. I went on to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
10
Spiers on Saturday: Leeann Dempster has got the ball now at Hibs
However, last night the 43-year-old made the sort of noises that might have warmed even the most abject, stony-hearted Hibby of these days. Dempster spoke to ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 14»

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