flinty

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
2. adjective Siliceous (including basanite).

   flinty rock

3. adjective Showing a lack of emotion.
4. adjective Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

Similar words

stony granitic obdurate heartless hardhearted inflexible unyielding flakelike flintstonesque fluelike

Often followed by

rock and heart slate eyes rocks hearts soil stone

Word family

flintier flintiest flintily flintiness flintinesses