From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
stony adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony] 3: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]