stonelike

• Adjectif désignant ce qui ressemble à de la pierre par la dureté, l'immobilité ou l'absence d'expression ; peu courant en anglais moderne.

An archaic adjective meaning resembling stone in hardness, stillness, or lack of expression; rarely used in modern English.

1. Resembling stone in hardnessC1formal

   Having a texture or consistency similar to stone, especially used to describe bone tissue that is extremely hard.

   qui a la dureté de la pierre

   • The temporal bone in some fossils appears stonelike in its density.
   • Surgeons noted the stonelike hardness of the patient's calcified tissue.
   • The specimen's stonelike quality made it difficult to cut.

   Synonymesflintyrocklikestony

   Antonymespliablesoftyielding