granitic :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

adj. hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

adj. incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"

adj. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"

adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent

adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

die-hard, rock-ribbed

adj. tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican"

fossilized, ossified

adj. set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

brassbound, unchangeable, ironclad

adj. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"

adamantine

adj. having the hardness of a diamond

erect, tumid

adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

firm, solid

adj. not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"

set, hardened

adj. converted to solid form (as concrete)

lignified, woody

adj. made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

marmoreal, marmorean

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of marble

ossified

adj. changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"

petrified

adj. converted into stone

petrous, stonelike

adj. (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness

slaty, slatey

adj. of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"

steely

adj. resembling steel in hardness

unpadded

adj. (hard)

faltering

adj. unsteady in speech or action

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