Meaning

1 senses
  1. (figuratively, literally)Resembling stone or a stone.

    Near-synonyms: stony, stonish

    (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From stone + -like.

From stone + -like.

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Forms

more stonelike, most stonelike
Comparativemore stonelike Lesson
Superlativemost stonelike Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness:petrous

Word family

1 related words
Relatedstoniness

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stonelike — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto