FLINTY Synonyms

• very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

• impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• with resolute determination

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• strong and sure

• not subject to revision or change

• (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely established

• possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

• securely fixed in place

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• property consisting of houses and land

• not able or intended to be moved

• incapable of being placated

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• never-ceasing

• firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination

• characterized by quickness and firmness

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• the rear part of a ship

• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• severely simple

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• not making concessions

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• punishingly harsh

• never-ceasing

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• without flaws or loopholes

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

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

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

• a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• hard as granite