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Granitic

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Adjective

1. flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

Example Sentences:
'his flinty gaze'
'the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart'

2. granitelike, granitic, rocklike, stony

hard as granite

Example Sentences:
'a granitic fist'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Granitic

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noun
1. 
a light-coloured coarse-grained acid plutonic igneous rock consisting of quartz, feldspars, and such ferromagnesian minerals as biotite or hornblende: widely used for building
2. 
great hardness, endurance, or resolution
3.  another name for a stone (sense 9)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Granitic

see synonyms of granitic
noun
a very hard, coarsegrained, gray to pink, intrusive igneous rock, composed mainly of feldspar, quartz, mica, and hornblende

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Granitic

see synonyms of granitic
n.
1. A common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica, used in monuments and for building.
2. Unyielding endurance; steadfastness: a will of granite.

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