full of stones
a stony beach
resembling stone
a stony accretion
cold or unresponsive; without compassion
stony silence
a stony heart
informal stony-broke
fall on stony ground
said of good advice, etc: to go unheeded [in reference to Matthew 13:5] []
[with allusion to the parable of the sower in Mark 4:3–5: ‘Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.’]stonily adv
stoniness noun