flinty.

1. Hard or sharp in a way that resembles flint.

2. Hard, stern, and unwilling to show warmth or yield.

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Words that belong together

• flinty ground
• flinty fragments

On the page

Their boots slipped on the flinty path above the quarry.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more flinty; superlative most flinty when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.