Stony vs Inured - What's the difference?
stony | inured | Related terms |
As hard as stone.
Containing or made up of stones.
(figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
(figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
(inure)
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) To take effect, to be operative.
* Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
Stony is a related term of inured.
As an adjective stony
is as hard as stone.As a verb inured is
(inure).stony
English
Adjective
(er)- a stony path
- She gave him a stony reception.
Synonyms
* (hard as stone ): as hard as iron, as hard as a rock, rock-hard * (containing stones ): pebbly, rocky, shingly * (of a person ): cold, cool, hard-hearted, heartless, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling * (of an action ): cold, cool, frosty, unwelcomingAntonyms
* (hard as stone ): soft * (of a person ): passionate, warm * (of an action ): warm, welcomingDerived terms
* stoniness * stony-facedAnagrams
* *inured
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Verb
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*inure
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Verb
- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.