stone
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8.4
- noun
- /stoʊn/
- Informal
- It was just like a cold stone face response.
- a heart of stone
- stone-cold
Examples
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All the while, his expression is hard as stone: he will get through this or die.
Fiction book (1993) -
But his stone face showed he wasn't happy.
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We were not stone then, but light.
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You really are made of stone!
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It's like she's turning into stone in front of me, except for her eyes.
Fiction book (1991) -
You've a heart of stone.
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Bushnell was adamant: "To have no desires is to be a stone, not a man."
Academic text (2010) -
Epictetus says there's two main ways that people end up having this hardening to stone going on within the soul.
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You're, you're understanding it in your own way and you'd have to be a stone to not have that affect you.
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After hearing the news, she looked at him with a stone expression, revealing no hint of her true feelings.
Synonyms
8
8.1
Not showing any feeling or care
6
3.9
Very hard and not easy to break
1
7.1
A hard, cold way of acting that shows no emotion
1
5.1
Very hard and like stone in look or feel
A face and behavior that show no feeling
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
8
4.4
Try every possible way and search everywhere to achieve a goal
- Literature
8
7.7
To be the first to criticize someone when you have the same fault
Compounds
- Literature
4
9.9
People in old stories say it changes ordinary metals into gold or gives eternal life
3
4.5
A stone placed at a building's start during a ceremony, often with the date and founder's name
- Literature
2
8.1
A stone at Blarney Castle in Ireland that people kiss to speak in a fluent, pleasant way
- US
2
4.1
A large edible crab with a hard shell found in Florida and southern US waters, often eaten for its meat
- Literature
1
9.9
A magical thing that turns metals into gold and makes people live forever
1
3.6
A stone like amethyst or turquoise used in jewelry that costs less than diamonds
1
6.3
A heavy round piece of granite with a handle that slides across ice in the game of curling
- Specialized
1
8.9
A winged insect that lives near streams and whose young live under stones in water
- Specialized
1
6.6
A layer of stone attached to the outside of a wall or riverbank to protect it
1
6.1
A later part of the Stone Age when people begin farming and make polished stone tools
- Specialized
1
9.9
A rock made of many pebbles and small stones held together by harder material
- South African
1
9.3
A small plant with thick leaves that looks like a stone and has yellow or white flowers
- Specialized
1
9.9
A large bird with a big head and eyes that is active at night near coasts and wetlands
- South African
1
9.9
A small plant with thick leaves that looks like a stone and has yellow or white flowers
1
9.5
A small plant with thick leaves that look like stones and a single yellow or white flower
- Specialized
A fine white clay made when rocks break down and used to make pottery and as a filler
- South African
A small plant with thick leaves that look like stones and one yellow or white flower
A large tree from central Europe with groups of five needles and edible seeds
- Specialized
A computer used by a hacker to reach other computers and hide where they came from
- US
A large brown fish that lives near rocks and shipwrecks in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
- UK
A small wild animal like a weasel with brown fur and a pale throat patch found in Europe and Asia
- South African
A small water-storing plant with thick leaves that look like stones
- Specialized
A small plant with delicate pink flowers that grows on sunny rocky ground
A machine that splits large stone blocks like granite or marble into smaller pieces
How Emotionless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stone meaning lack of feeling comes from the idea of a rock that is cold and hard. So saying someone has a 'stone' in their voice or a 'stone' where their heart should be means they show no feeling.