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Definition of Flinty

1. Adjective. Containing flint.

2. Adjective. Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings. "The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

Definition of Flinty

1. a. Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.

Definition of Flinty

1. Adjective. Resembling or containing flint. ¹

2. Adjective. Showing a lack of emotion. ¹

3. Adjective. Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flinty

1. resembling flint [adj FLINTIER, FLINTIEST] : FLINTILY [adv]

Medical Definition of Flinty

1. Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rock, or Flinty state, a siliceous slate; basanite is here included. See Basanite. Origin: Flintier; Flintiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flinty

flintiest flintify flintily flintiness flintinesses flinting flintings flintlike flintlock flintlocks

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Literary usage of Flinty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"A Test with flinty Seed. • The "Malamo" sweet corn has shown a tendency to develop ... These kernels have been termed "flinty," in distinction from the pure ..."

2. Observations on the Geology of the United States of America: With Some by William Maclure (1817)
"Primitive flinty-slate. 13. Primitive Gypsum, 14. White-stone. CLASS II.—Transition Rocks. ... Transition flinty-slate, 5. Transition Gypsum. CLASS III. ..."

3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"It is at once succeeded by a black flinty felsite like that of Mull. ... Further up the hill, the rock becomes lighter in colour and less flinty in ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"The harder, more flinty shales which appear along the coast are not found in the vicinity of the diabase. Fig. 2. View on the Searsville-La Honda road ..."

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