flinty
pronunciation
How to pronounce flinty in British English:
UK [ˈflɪnti]
How to pronounce flinty in American English:
US [ˈflɪntɪ]
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- Adjective:
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- having austere inflexibility
Word Origin
- flinty (adj.)
- 1530s, "hard-hearted;" 1540s, "hard, impenetrable as flint," from flint + -y (2). Literal sense of "resembling flint" is from 1640s. Related: Flintily; flintiness.
Example
- 1. The church is built of a flinty material .
- 2. They face as a result of melting crisis , is flinty .
- 3. Meanwhile , anger against the flinty and self-righteous northern europeans is mounting in austerity-hit nations such as greece , portugal , spain and italy .
- 4. Flinty odour : a characteristic odour taste of some dry wines made from grapes grown on certain siliceous soils .
- 5. He looked into her flinty eyes and when she said nothing more he asked her , " you 're sure you want to handle it this way ? "