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Adjectives (5)
flinty, unyielding
adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
granitelike, rocklike, stony
adj. hard as granite; "a granitic fist"
Fuzzynyms (4)
implacable
adj. incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"
inflexible, rigid, unbending
adj. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
Synonyms (30)
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)
Antonyms (1)
faltering
adj. unsteady in speech or action
granitic
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