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English adjective: flint

1. flint showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings


SamplesHis flinty gaze.
The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart.


Synonymsflinty, granitic, obdurate, stony


Similarhardhearted, heartless


Antonymssoft-boiled, softhearted


English noun: flint

1. flint (substance) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony


Broader (hypernym)silica, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide


Narrower (hyponym)firestone, flintstone, gunflint

2. Flint (object) a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River


SynonymsFlint River


Instance hypernymriver


Part meronymEmpire State of the South, GA, Georgia, Peach State

3. Flint (location) a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing


Instance hypernymcity, metropolis, urban center


Part meronymGreat Lakes State, MI, Michigan, Wolverine State









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