stonehard
English
Alternative forms
- stone-hard
Etymology
From Middle English ston-hard, ston-harde, from Old English *stānheard (attested in names: stanhard,stanart, stannard, etc.), equivalent to stone + hard.
Adjective
stonehard (not comparable)
- hard as stone
- 1998, Oliver Stone, A Child's Night Dream, →ISBN, page 51:
- To stare into his cold stonehard heart.
- 2013, D. de Moulin, A short history of breast cancer, page 12:
- The second patient of Cosmas and Damian was suffering from a stone-hard tumour in the breast, that had given rise to a contraction around the nipple.
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Translations
hard as stone
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Anagrams
- hardstone