STONY

adj. 1 stoney, rocky, pebbly, shingly, shingled Some of the beaches along the Riviera are too stony to lie on directly 2 stoney, hard, obdurate, adamant, adamantine, heartless, stony-hearted, hard-hearted, indifferent, unsympathetic, implacable, intractable, heartless, insensitive, insensible, unfeeling, unsentimental, merciless, pitiless, cold, cold-hearted, chilly, frigid, icy, tough, callous, steely, inflexible, unresponsive, Colloq hard-boiled He listened to her pleadings in stony silence 3 bankrupt, penniless, indigent, poverty-stricken, poor, Colloq broke, Chiefly Brit stoney, stony-broke or stoney-broke, skint At the time, I was so stony I didn't have two pennies to rub together