flint

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

1. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

- his flinty gaze

Similar word(s): hardhearted, heartless, flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony

noun

1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

Definition categories: substance, silica

2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

Definition categories: object

3. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

Definition categories: location

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.