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stonehard

stonehard adjective: hard as stone.

Adjective

stonehard (not comparable)

  1. Hard as stone
    • To stare into his cold stonehard heart.1998, Oliver Stone, A Child's Night Dream, →ISBN, page 51
    • 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.2013, D. de Moulin, A short history of breast cancer, page 12

Forms of stonehard

alternative formstone-hard

Origin of stonehard

From Middle English ston-hard, ston-harde, from Old English *stānheard, equivalent to stone + hard.

Questions about stonehard

What does stonehard mean?
Stonehard means hard as stone.
What part of speech is stonehard?
Stonehard is an adjective.

Words near stonehard in the dictionary

  1. Stonegate
  2. stoneground
  3. Stonehall
  4. Stoneham
  5. Stonehams
  6. stonehard
  7. stonehatch
  8. stonehatches
  9. Stonehaven
  10. stonehead
  11. stoneheads

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