adjective
- Abounding in rocks or stones.
- usage: "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
- Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.
- usage: "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- Hard as granite.
- usage: "a granitic fist"
- synonyms: granitic, granitelike, rocklike
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